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Anonymous wrote:Strength training! Lifting heavy is so good for our body.
Your body, Our bodies...you don't share a body with OP.
Anyway, strength training is not cardio. I'm assuming OP is looking for a cardio replacement. A strength training program should already be in place.
Chill the F out. It was a typo should have said “your” body. Why are people on here so uptight?
And OP did not specify cardio. Plus if you strength training right and with enough weight your heart will be pumping. Not the same as running but you’ll be challenged.
Nope. I have a master’s degree in exercise physiology. This is not a thing. Only a small segment of professional or Olympic-level athletes are capable of “getting their cardio by lifting weights”.
My heart rate is at 180 and I can't speak for the next 15 minutes every time I do high rep leg press and over 150 whenever I go after 8-12 reps of heavy bulgarian split squats. Yes not the same as sustained cardio but you can definitely improve your cardiovascular fitness by lifting weights. Except walking I never do actual cardio and I easily outpace my friends who only run on difficult hikes.
Never said it would count as cardio or replace cardio. Just said it gets your HR up. Reason I said that is because people often pick their preferred exercise because of how it makes them feel.
You may have muscle strength, but your health is poor. Not being able to speak for 15 minutes after getting your heart rate to 180 (doing weights, not cardio) is... pretty awfully poor. I don't mean that as an insult, but something you should really work on improving. That isn't normal.
Especially if your heart rate remains high after a minute. The quicker you can recover, the healthier your heart. After running and having my heart rate around 180 (nothing gets my heart rate even close to that high besides running), my heart rate will drop to 125 after 60 seconds. And that's to a walk, not actual rest.
Strength training is important and I myself should work on it, but your heart is clearly not in good shape according to what you're describing. That's not something to brag about. Seriously. Not meant as an insult. Especially if you can't quickly get your heart rate back down.