What A Terrible Idea!

Welcome to Episode 26 and this week we are back in the HY3RID podcast den/under Dai's kitchen table covered in a blanket, talking all about conditioning.  This is very apt after Team HY3RID came 3rd overall in the Elite males category at the National Fitness Games final this weekend.  What does Conditioning mean? As a very general rule, we are considering conditioning to be the ability to produce a large quantity of work for an extended period of time or repeated bouts, but conditioning is very much specific to your sport/training goal.  However we do know that doing some kind of cardiovascular/aerobic training improves overall health markers across the board. After chatting through what adaptations we are specifically looking for from aerobic training, we discuss: - Why this is important, even if you are a powerlifter - Why HIIT training is potentially one of the worst things you can do to actually build aerobic capacity - What you actually need to do to build more aerobic capacity? We would