For people whose primary fitness activity is lifting or sports: how much cardio do you do? Specifically, what do you do, for how long, and how often?

My primary fitness activity is a sport (recreational, 3x a week), with lifting 2-3x a week. I’m trying to do more LISS cardio outside of these for general cardiovascular health and possibly improved stamina.

Edit: Thanks for all the replies, y’all!

  • hootener@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I currently do a ppl split. I’ll lift five days a week, do cardio/core for one day, and then rest for one day.

    I should probably just do six days of ppl ferda gains, but I really like the change of pace that comes from the core/cardio day.

    That day is usually twenty minutes of dedicated core exercise followed by 45 - 60 minutes (depending on how much time I have that day) doing moderate effort work on a spin bike

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      1 year ago

      Do you like the spin bike? Right now I alternate between the row erg and treadmill.

      It’s good to do core and cardio at least once a week :)

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        1 year ago

        Agreed on core and cardio. It’s just always felt like a missed opportunity to not get two full rotations of the ppl in each week, but this is working for me so far.

        I like the spin bike. I bought a Sunny off Amazon and used two external wahoo sensors to get cadence and rpm measurements. I don’t use that data much though, tbh.

        I chose the spin bike because I also just cycle normally for recreation. I have a knee injury from several years ago that keeps me away from running. I do like erg machines a lot, but my gym is a home gym in my garage and I don’t really have the floorspace for it.

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          1 year ago

          Sounds good! I asked because my gym has a ton of cardio machines that I haven’t tried, so I will try the spin bike next :)

          Also lol I do core 4-5x a week.