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Strong Women
How to build and maintain muscle: here’s why cardio won’t “kill your gains” at the gym
By Aimee Pearcy
3 years ago
2 min read
Go on any weight training Reddit thread or online forum and you’ll quickly find someone claiming that cardio “ruins” gym gains, writes Aimee Pearcy. Here’s why that’s simply not true.
If you want to get strong, build muscle and protect gym gains, you don’t start running. Right? Sure, boxers might run to improve fitness, but if weights room chat is to be believed, you’re not supposed to do too much cardio for fear of losing muscle.
Weights enthusiast Tina Clough used to be one of those anti-running gym-goers until she found herself training for Run For Heroes. In no time, she noticed that she felt both physically and mentally more powerful. “I felt great doing it and it really helped me to get stronger.”
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