5 signs your doing to much cardio!

bearsbulls85

Cardio is an excellent way to strengthen the heart, lose weight and improve overall fitness level, but are you doing too much cardio?
Here are my 5 signs that you are doing too much cardio.
1. Increased body fat or hard to lose
body fat
2. Mood changes/ Low energy
3. Disrupted sleep schedule
4. Getting sick more often.
5. Repetitive joint/muscle pain.

WinoGelato

What are you basing this on?
What are your credentials to be making these claims?
What are your controls to exclude other variables that may be causing similar symptoms?
How does too much cardio cause increased body fat, independent of any mention of calorie intake?

amusedmonkey

I disagree. Increased fat is definitely not a sign of too much cardio, it's a sign of too much eating. The next 3 can be a sign of not fueling your activity enough, but can also be the result of many other causes. The last one is a sign of too much too soon/underlying conditions/not compensating for the loss of electrolytes. I doubt these points have any real basis, but if they did, it's not directly "too much cardio", but not adjusting your lifestyle to your activity level.

Many endurance athletes can manage a lot of cardio just fine. Problems arise when a person starts doing cardio/sports recreationally and goes full throttle without building up. This also applies to all kinds of activity, including resistance training. You can do as much cardio as is sustainable for you as long as you build up to it and have appropriate rest days and nutrition adjustment.

apullum

None of these are necessarily related to "too much cardio."

My mood changes pretty darn fast if I can't run...and not for the better.

JBanx256

bearsbulls85 wrote: »

. Increased body fat or hard to lose
body fat

No.

snowflake954

Sounds like menopause to me.

LivingtheLeanDream

those 5 signs sound more like something that would happen if under eating over a long period...

MelanieCN77

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kshama2001

A lot of that happens to me when I don't get ENOUGH cardio.

JetJaguar

For me, that's a list of the 5 signs that I'm not doing enough cardio.

NovusDies

bearsbulls85 wrote: »

Cardio is an excellent way to strengthen the heart, lose weight and improve overall fitness level, but are you doing too much cardio?
Here are my 5 signs that you are doing too much cardio.
1. Increased body fat or hard to lose
body fat
2. Mood changes/ Low energy
3. Disrupted sleep schedule
4. Getting sick more often.
5. Repetitive joint/muscle pain.

Everyone should be smart when starting any type of exercise. It can be overdone and detrimental.

1. Impossible. Scale weight can be influenced by new exercise:

http://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/

2, 3, 4 Possible but mostly related to not eating enough calories

5. This one is plausible if a person goes from nothing to too much too soon.

Exercise is not the only way people get "cardio." If this list was accurate no highly active job would ever get done. The TDEE for some people that do no formal exercise is extraordinary.

Terytha

Sounds like my symptoms for depression.

I can always tell when it's getting bad because my body aches and my immune system goes to hell.

Certain types of light cardio are actually the solution.

kshama2001

NovusDies wrote: »

bearsbulls85 wrote: »

Cardio is an excellent way to strengthen the heart, lose weight and improve overall fitness level, but are you doing too much cardio?
Here are my 5 signs that you are doing too much cardio.
1. Increased body fat or hard to lose
body fat
2. Mood changes/ Low energy
3. Disrupted sleep schedule
4. Getting sick more often.
5. Repetitive joint/muscle pain.

Everyone should be smart when starting any type of exercise. It can be overdone and detrimental.

1. Impossible. Scale weight can be influenced by new exercise:

http://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/

2, 3, 4 Possible but mostly related to not eating enough calories

5. This one is plausible if a person goes from nothing to too much too soon.

Exercise is not the only way people get "cardio." If this list was accurate no highly active job would ever get done. The TDEE for some people that do no formal exercise is extraordinary.

Good point. With my last machine operator job, I ran around my machine most of my shift, and with my first, I was manually feeding it all shift.