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Originally Posted by KelvinKe
Drop the cardio unless you're prepared to eat a lot more than you currently do. 10km per day x 10 times per week is way too much. It will 100% interfere with your recovery from lifting.
I'm gonna up my cals whenever I feel like I need to. Eating is easy, just make a cal goal for the day, and eat accordingly, simple as that.
Regarding cardio and recovery - I've already considerably slowed down the pedaling, I basically just cruised last few days.
But yeah, if it starts to look like it interferes with recovery too badly, then I'll start biking every other day or drop it altogether. I'm not biking for cardio's sake, it's just a preferred way to commute for me. No need to pollute the planet if there's no real need to. Also, biking to/from work takes less time than driving my car there. It just feels so lol-silly to sit in a traffic jam every morning/afternoon, too.
One more thing - winter is slowly crawling in here in Finland and I'm not gonna bike on days there's more than 20cm of snow on roads I use or if the temperature gets below -20C/-4F, so I'm gonna bike less often when weights get heavier anyways.
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Originally Posted by KelvinKe
If SS = Start Strength then I wouldn't recommend it for a beginner without a coach. There are so many things that can go wrong with deadlift and squat. Took me about 9 months to get the perfect form on deadlift so if you want to gain pure muscle mass then I would go for either volume training or High intensity training (HIT). Some people respond better to V, some people prefer HIT. After lifting for 2.5 years using volume training I have finally switched to HIT and couldn't recommend it enough.
Hmm, I guess I'll take my chances and go on with SS.
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Originally Posted by KelvinKe
Hope this helps.
I dunno, but thanks anyways.
Last edited by Pummi81; 11-19-2011 at 01:23 PM.