#987: Hybrid Training - Effective Method? Or Fastest Way To Lose Strength & Size?
Jul 8, 2024
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Exploring the benefits and drawbacks of Hybrid Training, a popular fitness trend combining strength and cardio. Discusses muscle loss, building muscle, recovery, and overall health benefits. Pros include increased calorie expenditure and functionality, while cons focus on slower muscle growth and joint strain. Offers insights into balancing training methods for optimal results.
Hybrid training combines conflicting modalities for improved functional fitness and health benefits.
Balancing strength and cardio in hybrid training enhances overall fitness and capability.
Hybrid training is suitable for maintaining muscle, improving aerobic capacity, and achieving functional fitness goals.
Deep dives
Overview of Hybrid Training in Fitness
Hybrid training is currently a trending topic within the fitness industry, blending different training modalities that have typically opposing goals. It combines aerobic and anaerobic systems in one program, focusing on performance improvements and comprehensive health benefits. The rise of hybrid training is evident in competitions like High Rocks, offering functional fitness challenges with growing popularity.
Defining Hybrid Training and its Applications
Hybrid training encompasses a multifaceted approach encompassing both strength training and cardiovascular activities. By integrating these seemingly conflicting training modalities, individuals aim to achieve a nuanced balance between muscle development and endurance enhancement. The dual focus on strength and cardio enhances overall functional fitness, allowing individuals to engage in a wide range of physical activities with increased capability.
Pros and Cons of Hybrid Training
Pros of hybrid training include enhanced health benefits, longevity in both training and life, increased functional capacity, and potential for supporting leanness through calorie expenditure. However, cons may involve challenges in building significant muscle mass, slower overall progress due to diversified training goals, potential joint wear and tear from repetitive movement, and time-intensive training requirements. Balancing these factors is crucial for optimizing outcomes in a hybrid training regimen.
Benefits of Cardiovascular Training for Muscle Growth
Cardiovascular training enhances oxidation levels, leading to improved mitochondria function, increased oxygen flow to muscles, and better nutrient delivery. This results in faster recovery during strength training, enabling quicker recovery between repetitions, sets, and training days. However, balancing cardiovascular and strength training volume is crucial to avoid slower progress towards specific goals.
Ideal Candidates for Hybrid Training
Hybrid training is suitable for advanced individuals focusing on maintaining muscle rather than substantial growth, as it offers a balanced approach to training. Additionally, individuals emphasizing aerobic capacity and pure strength benefit from hybrid training, as it facilitates strength-building alongside cardio activities. Furthermore, individuals with general functional fitness goals find hybrid training advantageous, allowing them to achieve overall fitness and strength while avoiding excessive muscle growth.
EASILY one of the most talked about training styles in the fitness world right now... Hybrid Training.
And with Hyrox on the rise, it's only going to get more popular amongst individuals training around the world.
But is it actually effective? What are the benefits? And can you still build muscle training this way or will all the cardio eat away at your gains?
In this episode of the podcast, I answer ALL of those questions and more -- in MASSIVE detail, so that you can walk away knowing exactly what you should think about this new and trendy training style!
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LISTENERS’ QUESTIONS:
Does hybrid training cause a lot of muscle loss?
Is there a significant difference for muscle growth between someone just focused on muscle vs. someone who’s hybrid training?
How to balance it out and ensure you’re still recovering?
What is Hybrid Training?
Isn’t it just CrossFit…? No, that’s a sport.
It’s the combination of multiple types of training that normally would be conflicting or have opposing goals.
Pro’s of Hybrid Training:
Health and overall benefits being more vast (more benefits overall)
Longevity in both life, as well as training, is more likely.
Functionality for a physically active lifestyle
More likely to help someone get lean or sustain a leaner physique, due to calorie expenditure being greater
Con’s of Hybrid Training:
Less likely to build significant amounts of muscle
Slower overall progress, when goal is hyper specific
Potential wear and tear on joints
Training could potentially take a lot of time per week
Who’s Hybrid Training Best Suited For?
Advanced individuals who don’t desire building more muscle
Someone who’s solely focused on aerobic capacity and pure strength
An individual who has general goals and has a primary focus on being functional
Setting up a hybrid program
Upper/Lower/Upper/
Push/Pull/Legs/Push/Pull
Full Body w/ More Upper Body
Full Body w/ More Posterior Work
Careful consideration with hip flexors and exercises that overwork your adductors, hips, and spinal erectors.
Conclusion and Teaser Of Something You Won't Expect...