[asdasd]

Hi Guys,
Im now trying to cut and im wondering if im doing enuff cardio.
i normally do cardio about 6 mins before weight training and 8-15 mins after.
Im just a little under 160 pounds and 17 years old.
I train about 3-4 times a week..

and also im following a generally low carb and high protein diet

Thanks for ur advice

[ZackKnight]

I don't really even know if you need to do any cardio before you workout, but it's good to warm you up. You should be doing about 30 minutes of either high intensity or just all around good cardio 5 to 7 days a week. Do it after your workout because the glycogen in your muscles will be pushed out of your muscles and depleted so your body can use your fat stores for energy and you will burn fat much easier.

[asdasd]

Yea....
but im just wondering what im doing now is enough to see significant fat loss in a month or so.??
or i have to increase the duration?
im doing about 20 mins cardio 3-4 times a week if u add it up.

[ZackKnight]

if you lose 2lbs a week, you could lose anywhere from 8 to 10lbs in a month. That's pretty significant, but it depends on what you consider significant.

[asdasd]

hahah but the thing is that i dont wanna lose weight.
i wanna lose the fat while maintaining my weight.

[LBblitz]

It depends all depends upon how much glycogen you spent during your workout.

When doing cardio, you first use up muscle sugar then stored sugar then once glycogen stores are depleted your body's burning of fat greatly increases. Depending on your intensity they say that this starts between 15-20 min of cardio.

BUT, if you have already depleted much of your glycogen stores during your lifting, your fat-burning would kick in earlier into your post-workout cardio.

On days that you are only doing cardio and not lifting you want to make sure run for a longer period of time. You want to get past that first 20 min to start burning fat. Limit the cardio session at 60 min though.

[Kaboom]

You are going to lose weight man if you pick up the cardio.If you want to lose the fat like he said get up to at least 30 mins a day around 5 days a week.After you start seeing some cuts or are down to where you want to be on BF then we can change things around for ya to help build muscle or better yet lets build muscle now and cut later.
Im assuming you want to look good for the summer though so you need to cut now then maybe next fall go on a bulk and try to build muscle mass

[asdasd]

Haha its summer all year round here dude!
LOL

Ok guys thanks for ur advice.
I think i shall just try to increase my post WO cardio to about 20 mins.