Hi doctors, lately I’ve been wondering if doing endurance type of cardio (i.e running) could have any detriments to hypertrophy/strength adaptations or outcomes. For a quite while I’ve been engaged with this type or cardio, weekly runs of about 10-15km at about 70-85% of max heart beat. So my question, can I see better strength/hypertrophy gains if I quit doing this type of cardio or it doesn’t have any effect?
Thanks.
Yes, if done with too much volume it can negatively influence strength and hypertrophy outcomes.
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It definitely depends on the previous levels of training-so yes I would agree it depends on the individual.
For a newer lifter or someone green to conditioning, I think the data suggests <30 min per session <3x/wk is what you can get away with before it negatively impacts strength and hypertrophy outcomes. That said, we typically start at 1-2 sessions per week and titrate up from there.
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So to summarize this, you think that I, that have been running consistently for about 1-2 years every week about 10-15km, could expect not to see any impacts on my resistance training?
Not any new impacts, no.
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