Hey all!
I've been slowly breaking up with my tumultuous relationship with endurance sports and chronic cardio. What was once a full-blown love affair with bike racing, making it to the professional level, turned into purely an obsession even though I hated it. I was completely addicted to cardio and in turn experienced complete burnout from overtraining. After unexplained weight gain, six years without a period, and a whacked out hormonal profile, I decided to take a step back. That was two years ago.
Since then, I have found joy in many types of fitness. But I was still relying 90% on cardio. I have been strength training pretty seriously for the last eight months and am now focused on CrossFit as the forefront of my training. In addition to absolutely loving this new style of training for myself, I am also loving the newfound time I have in my life. Going from training 10-20 hours a week to 5-8 is pretty rad.
That said — I have a couple questions regarding body comp. I'll be completely honest, I have never had an aesthetic goal since I was always performance oriented. I'm at a point where training is no longer a job, and thus I feel pretty comfortable saying I am training to feel good and look great naked. Haha.
My issue is that I am still going through withdrawal from chronic cardio, so even when I'm on the ground from a training session I feel compelled that I *should* go run, or ride, or something afterwards. Like I just said, I really don't have time for that and from my experience the results in aesthetic changes are counter productive. I stay really active throughout the day and ride my bike everywhere for transportation and/or walk at least 10-15k steps a day.
That was a really long explanation for a pretty basic question: in keeping my nutrition dialed (I have a nutrition coach and my current macros are 200c/135p/60f and I'm 5'4, 127 lbs) and focusing pretty much primarily on strength/CrossFit with 2-3 days/week of dedicated cardio should I expect to see changes in my body comp?
I would love some anecdotal feedback from women who have been on this journey longer than I, or that perhaps have similar stories.
Again, apologies for the long post but I love geeking out about this stuff and it's really fun to be totally psyched on a new sport for the first time in almost a decade!
I've been slowly breaking up with my tumultuous relationship with endurance sports and chronic cardio. What was once a full-blown love affair with bike racing, making it to the professional level, turned into purely an obsession even though I hated it. I was completely addicted to cardio and in turn experienced complete burnout from overtraining. After unexplained weight gain, six years without a period, and a whacked out hormonal profile, I decided to take a step back. That was two years ago.
Since then, I have found joy in many types of fitness. But I was still relying 90% on cardio. I have been strength training pretty seriously for the last eight months and am now focused on CrossFit as the forefront of my training. In addition to absolutely loving this new style of training for myself, I am also loving the newfound time I have in my life. Going from training 10-20 hours a week to 5-8 is pretty rad.
That said — I have a couple questions regarding body comp. I'll be completely honest, I have never had an aesthetic goal since I was always performance oriented. I'm at a point where training is no longer a job, and thus I feel pretty comfortable saying I am training to feel good and look great naked. Haha.
My issue is that I am still going through withdrawal from chronic cardio, so even when I'm on the ground from a training session I feel compelled that I *should* go run, or ride, or something afterwards. Like I just said, I really don't have time for that and from my experience the results in aesthetic changes are counter productive. I stay really active throughout the day and ride my bike everywhere for transportation and/or walk at least 10-15k steps a day.
That was a really long explanation for a pretty basic question: in keeping my nutrition dialed (I have a nutrition coach and my current macros are 200c/135p/60f and I'm 5'4, 127 lbs) and focusing pretty much primarily on strength/CrossFit with 2-3 days/week of dedicated cardio should I expect to see changes in my body comp?
I would love some anecdotal feedback from women who have been on this journey longer than I, or that perhaps have similar stories.
Again, apologies for the long post but I love geeking out about this stuff and it's really fun to be totally psyched on a new sport for the first time in almost a decade!
by coffeewatts via Bodybuilding.com Forums - Female Bodybuilding
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