Why Does Circuit Training = Better Cardio?

I know some are still wondering how circuits and complex training can help you get better cardio.

It's simple really. So simple you're gonna slap your forehead when I tell you.

When you lift a moderately heavy weight for a lot of reps, aren't you breathing hard at the end of the set? Esp if you're doing big, compound lifts? (You know, squats, presses, rows, swings, quick-lift hybrids, and the like.)

Heck yeah you are.

Well, take that huffing and puffing you're doing, and just repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it. And then do it one last time. And then maybe again...just for good measure.

All of a sudden, you know what's happened? You've been huffing and puffing like a freight train for an entire workout. Just like you might w/"cardio"...only with all the lifting, you're getting a ton of other benefits at the same time. (The stuff I keep telling you about - strength, power, endurance, etc.)

So why do the complex training instead of just a bunch of straight sets with a bunch of exercises?

When you do complexes, you're stacking a bunch of exercises together back to back w/o rest. By doing that, you can let part of your body rest, while the body as a whole has to still work.

So, if you do presses then rows then squats, your shoulder girdle works first, but then rests the rest of the complex, right? Well, by the time the next set comes around, your shoulders are 'rested' but your body was still working as a whole, and you were still breathing heavy the whole time.

See what I mean? It's doing all the same kinds of work, but with literally a fraction of the rest.

How much work you can do goes through the roof...and again, you're huffing and puffing the entire time. Which means you're gonna have better cardio.

But you can't just slap a bunch of exercises together and call it a complex or circuit. You gotta do it the right way, or else you're gonna jack it all up.

You gotta make sure you use exercises that fit together, with set and rep schemes that work, making sure that when you use the same weight for all the exercises that you're in a work range that will still get max results. Then there's when to progress and when to back off. Then there's how to build up from never having done
complexes at all to being able to crank them out like a madman.

It's not just about picking a bunch of exercises outta hat, and doing them all for a bunch of reps. There is a TON more to it than that.

So why not take all the guesswork out of the whole thing and go get the "Working Class Cardio Workout"?

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Train Hard, Rest Hard, Play Hard-
Matt "Wiggy" Wiggins
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