**sighs**.......

Sorry to kill your hopes and dreams bro

All of this is good to read, it's nice to know if I've been screwing up so that I have the ability to fix it.

So - I generally wake up around 6:30 and hit the trails by 8:30 and have been having my first meal around 10:00. I eat 5 to 6 times a day, so I have plenty of room to move my food around.

Does it matter what I should eat before cardio (carbs vs. protein?) and if so - how many calories (or percentage of daily calories?) should I have?

I did. He gave me some Vioxx and a $120 bill.

hey wala have you lost a significant amount of weight or have you ever been over weight?? You look fantastic........just wondering?
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Nope, I did however used to be very slim and skinny (hated every sec of it) that was until I was 22! started training 3 years ago and now im 25 and thats about it

Sorry i haven't answered many q's in the last day, been very busy and its the weekend so not on here much... I'll answer what I think needs answering - other members have cleared up most poeple's Q's already (which i dont mind at all BTW)

I'll be on tomorrow tho with some time..

Oh, remember you can PM me too

O Great Wala the enlightened one... please tell me... of those who choose to walk in the path of the "woodchopper" and build great obliques with his sacred twisting motions by the way of crossover cables, of what weight, reps and sets would of most benefit to a student who is 155 and 5'9" and wants to look straight pimp with his honey-magnet abs???

wala im on a cardio program in which i do 7 days a week on my stationary bike
mondays weds thurs sat i do HIIT for 25 mins and on the other days i do low intensity for 25 mins 2 times a day, i also try to limit my self to like 2000 calories am i doing to much i am a 6'5 male and im about 215 lbs give or take.

Thanks

What is your goal?

Everyone is different. What may be heavy or light for you, wont be the same for the next person.

Not exactly true, there is an optimal fat burning zone. The thing is, it's not the same for everyone. If you know of a student majoring in a athletic performance field, they could probably test your co2/o2 ratio while exercising and find your optimal hr%. Or if anyone is in fl, i'd be glad to take you to the university, ill even put you in the bod pod for fun! lol

Sounds sexy!! haha I know we all have optimal zones, but I was referring to the morning with no food traditional crappy cardio.

Oh okay, then continue bashing the cardio lol

im tryin to reach like 185-190 and i meant to say i do 35 mins low intensity 2 times a day i wrote 25 by accident

They just don't make me tired as much as I expected. I can put the weight up high enough that my body weight can't hardly budge the weights and still rip out more reps than I had expected. So, it doesn't seem to be on the same level as other exercises where you just increase your weight to the point that it's real hard to do 8-12 reps. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.