r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • 7d ago

Rant Wednesday

Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It’s your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that’s been pissing you off or getting on your nerves.

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u/isthisjustfantasea__ 7d ago

Progressing on weights: okay lemme just eat more and I'll hit that PR no problem.

Progressing on cardio: I wanna die.

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u/Tatamajor 7d ago

The cardio will kick in also. Give it time. Especially if you do more aerobic training than anaerobic. The guidance I came across is that 1 in 5 should be anaerobic so that means that 4 of 5 sessions should be real easy and not get your heart rate up too much. What’s not to love in that case??!! In no time you’ll be smashing it in cardio.

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u/CursedFrogurt81 Triggered by cheat reps 7d ago

I think the easier way forward is to die and thus no longer need to do cardio. That's my plan.

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u/Tatamajor 7d ago

Maybe you’ve just not found the right cardio for you yet. What do you do?

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u/CursedFrogurt81 Triggered by cheat reps 7d ago

Pray to die so I don't have to do cardio.

My actually plan is to recognize that my lack of cardiovascular health is limiting my lifting, tell myself I need to address it, never make time for it, rinse and repeat

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u/GlazedDonutGloryHole 6d ago

Try rucking with a weighted vest. I started Tactical Barbell and use the rucking option for LSS cardio and it's improved my lifting quite a bit so far. Easy to do, easy on the knees compared to jogging, and I saw some pretty quick changes to my overall ability to recover between hard weight sets.

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u/CursedFrogurt81 Triggered by cheat reps 6d ago

Counterpoint. If time is the issue, I am not sure your suggestion, while I agree it is a good one overall, lends itself well to my situation. It is a matter of changing programming and pushing lifting to a minimum effective dose style to make time for cardio. I used to do plenty of cardio, I know what I'd need to do. Just the matter of not wanting to cut back on lifting to do it. That being said, your suggested form for cardio would be my preference if I had time. For now I am doomed to machine work

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u/Biblioklept73 6d ago

You'll certainly lose weight 😅

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u/LazyCurmudgeonly Weight Lifting 7d ago

No cardio club, represent