Cardio during weight workouts

[Ziegmeister]

I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice, but when I adhere to the time constraints on the upper and lower bodyworkouts my heartrate is increased significantly. I haven't taken my pulse during a weight workout yet, but will do so Friday and see where it is.

Jon

[Marc]

Yes sir! I'm sweating like a miner 10 minutes into any BFL weights session! And my heart rate is right up there! I like!

[bluexj]

My heart rate really gets going when I do legs. I tend to go as heavy as I can. I actually hit somewhere around 160 doing squats last week. Not surprising since it recruits so many muscles. I think part of the purpose of the 1 minute interval is to actually keep the intensity and heart rate up for the exercise period.

[statona]

That's the idea - raise your heartrate to increase the amount of fat you are burning - and to keep it there most of the day. If you aren't pooped after the workouts - then something is wrong.

[pcrossley]

I have actually noticed that I was not getting too exerted during my BFL workout. I was doing the exercises in the following method per the book:

bench press - 5 sets (reps: 12, 10, 8, 6, 12) no rest after last set
dumbbell fly - 1 set (reps: 12)

Each set is pretty intense while doing it, but I cool down significantly during the one minute of rest between sets, and my heart rate slows. To correct this, I started a modified workout with this model:

bench press - 5 sets (reps: 12, 10, 8, 6, 12)
dumbbell fly - 5 sets (reps: 12, 10, 8, 6, 12)


This was super intense and really seemed to give me a better workout. My question is, doing this in a reasonable time period required resting less between sets. Is this a bad way to lift?

[Chris]

You can rest less if you want. That's fine...

If you continue doing more sets like this, I'd recommend splitting up your workouts so you can still get out of the gym in ~1 hr. Much longer than that and you quickly lose efficiency (read: wasting time). Common training splits are back and bis, chest and tris, legs, etc. For a while I was doing chest, back, shoulders then arms another day.