The Impact of Cardio Fitness on Strength Gains

If you improve your cardio fitness, will you also perform better in the gym and recover faster between sets?

That's a common hypothesis in the gym world. If proven true, it would be another good reason for adding more cardio training into your routine, since better recovery should mean bigger strength gains in the long run (pun intended).

That's the topic today, and we have a new study that examined the relationship between oxygen uptake (VO2 max) and recovery between sets, within-set fatigue, and whether men and women recover at different rates.

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