Vitamins and Minerals: How much is too much?

Listen to Omi-Cron Kenobi, he is right on the mark on how to gain weight. I do however disagree with him on the cardio part. Increasing your heart rate burns more calories but at the same time it strengthens your heart and lungs, being physically fit isn't about how big or buff you are it is about how well conditioned your body is to do work. So unless your only goal is to get larger I would include some cardio in your workout. I'm just speaking from personal experience, I used to weigh 145 - 150lbs and I started doing strength training to build muscle, I'm now 190lbs and can't run nearly as well anymore because I didn't balance my training to include the level of cardio I needed to sustain that level of muscle.

I now run 1 – 3 miles every other day and I’ve got to say I haven’t been this healthy or fit in a long time.

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Originally Posted by Omi-Cron Kenobi

Hey, I have absolutely nothing against cardio. I do plenty of it myself through interval sprints like Furious here just mentioned. I even mentioned he should do, at most, 30 minutes a day a few times a week. Even fucking better would be for Ayos to do sprints three times a week, ten minutes a session. There's a world of difference between a ripped Olympic sprinter and a soft looking long distance runner.

There is some middle ground between the sprinters and long distance runners, which is what I am personally aiming for. Many marines are the perfect example of that, many of them are HUGE but are able to run 3 - 5 miles daily and not have any problems with it.

As others have suggested get your calorie intake stabilized at a level where you can actually gain weight. Plyometric exercises are a good way to strengthen muscle to be faster and more powerful but I wouldn't necessarily suggest you start of with this type of training considering how thin you are.

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Originally Posted by Omi-Cron Kenobi

I guess my thing against long distance running is that you see these guys that can run an hour straight a few times a week. Yet, in their ordinary lives, they run up a few flight of stairs and they're already out of breath. I think doing your cardio for short, intense periods is also a greater help as far as a type of training that can enhance ordinary areas of our lives. At least to a much greater extent than long distance running. Jogging really. A good middle ground would probably be running at a good pace for 10-15 minutes, 20 tops. But, I mean, why do all that if you can get great benefits from doing sprints like this: Spint :30 seconds, walk briskly 1:30, repeat up to four more times. Bam, the shit is done between 6 and ten minutes and you're done.

:/ I think you are looking at the extremes of what distance running can be. Just something to consider is that many boxers run (really jog) for long amounts of time to increase their endurance in the ring. Endurance is just as important to strength and agility when it comes to physical fitness, but like any thing it needs to be a balance. While doing sprints is a good work out and has it benefits, it is not the same for your body as it would be if you ran for 30 - 45 minutes. I don't think it is accurate to say that you can do that work out and be BAM done with it and get the same benefits you would if you had ran for an extended period of time.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.