Up through the end of week 5, I had added an additional HIIT on the bicycle on my lifting days. Optigirl from http://www.bodyforlife.com/ forums, reminded me about "cardio trap". Basically cardio trap is what happens when you do additional cardio than what is recommended in the BFL program and actually could help diminish your gains by possibly dimishing muscle by being burned for energy instead of fat. After much debate I decided that I would only do cardio as scheduled and no more starting this week 6. It's been really hard the last few lifting days to be done after my last supersets and not hit cardio. Subconsciously, I'm almost convincing myself to go do cardio lol... I guess I'm just a creature of habit.
I've noticed this week that my hear rate is lower than what it use to be, so I must be getting more efficient. I have had to shorten some intervals and push the mph to help accomodate my target heart rates. I can say, that I feel good... it's good to feel like you can actually run again :)
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