Typically, SS cardio would work for me.. like 1 week.
In the past I've done a lot of cycling holidays, one of them even lasted 12 months! The most gruelling one is called the 100 Mtn Pass ride and it has you cycle over at least 100 French mountain passes and a total of 4000 K (2500mi). I averaged 80 K (50mi) a day and used 50 days + 5 rest days.
While I'd sleep in tents most of the time, I'd never take along cooking equipment but just eat cold food. Dining out in France takes oodles of precious daylight time.
Like before I'd drop weight like a stone in the first week(s) and then it would just totally stop.
When I came back home the rate in which I put on weight was outright frightening. In just 7 months I got to my highest weight ever. Despite working out 3x/wk , cycling quite a bit and doing 2 spinning sessions.
This is just an extreme example. But cortisol is a huge factor here. And it remained a huge factor . Every single time I go into the gym and did cardio post workout my body would just go in 'overdrive' and enable me to finish a workout and even feel great & rejuvenated afterwards.... but then CRASH HARD later that day and even more the next day. I mean crash in the sense that I could get barely anything accomplished, other than vegetate on my chair.
I miss the excitement from the cardio, but love how I feel at home without the cardio . And funnily, I'm getting exhuasted sooner when I lift, but OTOH seem to get stronger.
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