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Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts
Man, I killed it today. I posted this in the biggest loser thread, but whatever. I got up and ran 3.5 miles this morning and walked 1.5 between warm up and cool down. Then I went back a couple of hours ago and put in 4 miles on the elliptical, and 3.5 on the bike. 12.5 miles today. Woot!
I ate 2 scrambled eggs and 3 oz. of turkey kielbasa this morning. Just got done with 1/2 cup of fat free cottage cheese with salt and pepper, and 1/4 of an Italian sub. Yum.
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Why are you doing so much cardio?...you really don't have to do that much cardio, seriously. It's not necessary bro.
Are you trying to train to get in shape to run a marathon or something? Or are you simply trying to put on muscle and lose weight? What are your goals?
*If you're simply trying to lose weight, if I were you, I'd be focusing more towards caloric expenditure than anything. That's the bottomline and thats what matters the most.
Focusing on input and output. In other words, it's the amount of calories you intake on a daily basis vs. the amount of calories you burn on a daily basis. If the amount of calories your burning is greater than the amount of calories you're consuming, then that's when weight loss occurs. Im sure that has been discussed somewhere in this thread, but I thought Id just bring it up as a reminder.
If you are lifting weights, which Im assuming you are, did you know doing too much cardio can be counterproductive? especially if you're lifting weights and trying to put on muscle.
The reason for that is, when you overload on the cardio training, your bodies stress hormones become upgraded and as a result hormones such as cortisol
become released and is known to have its effects by eating away at muscle tissue.
Don't get me wrong, Im not trying be discouraging or act like a prick, Im just trying to help you out by giving you good advice and stating truth. Besides, I think you're a good guy and you deserve all the help you can get.
Best thing to do is put on muscle, and focus on diet and do a sufficient amount of cardio. Keep the cardio at a certain range, I'd say 30-45 minutes is plenty, and the weight training should be 45min to an hour. That's it. That's all you need Mr. Flopnuts. Be careful to not overtrain your body or to stress it out too much. If your goal is to lose weight, just remember caloric expenditure and be sure to know what your putting out compared to what you're putting in. when you put on muscle you will burn more calories at rest and your own body will compliment you in weight loss because adding more body mass increases your RMR( resting metabolic rate) thus more calories are burned at rest. More muscle increases the amount of calories you burn in a day no doubt.
Also, for guys like me and you because of our age it's important to keep our heart rate at certain range. They say to shoot for about 124-152bpm.