Hello everybody welcome back to fit body happy joints my name is Shannon

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When and if cardio interferes with body composition.

So you may have heard of something called the concurrent training effect, which is essentially the theory that endurance training or cardio may interfere with strength or muscle gain and thus your body composition.

There's endless debate about this topic to this day

and there's endless debate about the validity of

if there is any interference. In today's episode I'll discuss some recent

literature and I'll give kind of my practical takeaways based on the findings.

So because the research is all over the place,

some studies show there's no interference

and other studies show there is a significant interference

of doing a bunch of cardio on your strength and muscle gain.

But when the research is really mixed like this, it

tells me that there's likely some validity to this theory that too much cardio can

interfere with your gains. And it also tells me that it's

highly dependent on the individual and on the specific programming and on how

trained that individual is. So I think, you know, before we even get into this, I want to say that doing both cardio and strength workouts

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