YAWT: does your body need to recover from cardio exercise?

[iamme]

i know that with weight lifting, your muscles need time to recover and rebuild.

when cardio/endurance training, does your body need time to recover, for maximum benefits?

 

[StageLeft]

Of course, but it does so quickly. You can train for hours a day and it will be of benefit. It takes tons of time to get to the point where you're overtraining.

 

[Argo]

I can't answer your question, but I can say that people at work (very serious runners, they run marathons and etc) run for 10 or so miles 5 or more times a week. So I would imagine you recover fairly quickly.

 

[Gravity]

Not like you'd think. The body is amazing and adapts well to hard cardio training. I used to run 110 miles per week when training for marathons.

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: Gravity
Not like you'd think. The body is amazing and adapts well to hard cardio training. I used to run 110 miles per week when training for marathons.

I bet after the Marines and all that marathon running, that you're knees look like sh!t 😛

 

[vi edit]

Depends on how you are training and how hard. Two a day practices in cross country wound up injuring most of us....tendonitis, shin splints, stress fractures, ect.

That was running in the morning, and then having a second, more intense practice in the afternoon. When we switched back to one practice a day the injuries went down drastically.

So yes, you can overtrain. It is worth mentioning that it really depends on the type of cardio. You'd be pretty hard up to injure yourself on low impact things like elliptical trainers or swimming. Bike riding is a lot lower impact than running.

So you have to factor in the impact level as well.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Depends on how you are training and how hard. Two a day practices in cross country wound up injuring most of us....tendonitis, shin splints, stress fractures, ect.

That was running in the morning, and then having a second, more intense practice in the afternoon. When we switched back to one practice a day the injuries went down drastically.

So yes, you can overtrain. It is worth mentioning that it really depends on the type of cardio. You'd be pretty hard up to injure yourself on low impact things like elliptical trainers or swimming. Bike riding is a lot lower impact than running.

So you have to factor in the impact level as well.

Yes, impact is something I didn't mentioned. In terms of one's muscles, they can take tons of abuse from cardio. It's really hard to overtrain them, but for something like running it's very very easy to do. I basically can't run, because doing it more than a couple of times/week starts hurting my old joints and ligaments, so for me that constitutes overtraining.

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Depends on how you are training and how hard. Two a day practices in cross country wound up injuring most of us....tendonitis, shin splints, stress fractures, ect.

That was running in the morning, and then having a second, more intense practice in the afternoon. When we switched back to one practice a day the injuries went down drastically.

So yes, you can overtrain. It is worth mentioning that it really depends on the type of cardio. You'd be pretty hard up to injure yourself on low impact things like elliptical trainers or swimming. Bike riding is a lot lower impact than running.

So you have to factor in the impact level as well.

Yes, impact is something I didn't mentioned. In terms of one's muscles, they can take tons of abuse from cardio. It's really hard to overtrain them, but for something like running it's very very easy to do. I basically can't run, because doing it more than a couple of times/week starts hurting my old joints and ligaments, so for me that constitutes overtraining.

interesting, thanks.

i've had pain in my lower back and the doctor says there are muscle spasms that are possibly pinching my sciatic (sp?) nerve. so, low impact would be nice. because of my lower back pain, i've been a lazy pile and i need to start exercising again.

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

i used to run competitively. depending on what distance cardio you train for, it varies. for long distance (whether running biking, etc) you usually need to do a lot of long slow distance, aka areobic, workouts. you don't need a lot of time to recover from these, as many serious people do two per day. eating carbs immediately after the workout really helps recovery.

for speed intensive workouts, aka aerobic threshold, anaerobic training, interval etc. you need longer to recover, and doing one every other day usually provides enough time off. most training involves one of these workouts every other day and one or more slow aerobic workouts per day

 

[Landroval]

You need to recover cardiovascularly (quick), by eating (quick), and by not overworking your joints and tendons (for most people not so quick).