I'm doing 60 min of cardio a day. Too much?

xShreddx

I've been doing cardio for 29 days straight now and have been mostly been doing 60 minutes per day. Is this too much? I've only lost 6 lbs so far but understand my body is adjusting to my new lifestyle and storing glycogen. I do 10 min of warm-up, 30 minutes of moderate, 15 minutes of aggressive and 5 minutes of cool down. Does this sound good? I'm burning anywhere from 500-800 calories per workout and ranging from 140-170 bpm which depends on what machines I'm doing. Is this a good plan?

BigT555

if it works for you, then give er'. the only time exercise becomes "too much" is when it interferes with other aspects of your life

martinel2099

You want to develop a lifestyle change that you help you lose weight and keep off the weight for the rest of your life. The question I'd ask you is do you want to spend the rest of your life going to the gym everyday? Remember while activity is good you can totally lose weight with no activity at all as long as you maintain a calorie deficit.

If you like doing some form of cardio and you're not over working your muscles I personally do not see a problem. One fear I have is that you may be over-doing it which could result in injury or worse, you get frustrated and quit.

lockeddoor

As long as you are not hurting yourself (like being in actual pain, versus the normal discomfort of exercise, don't injure yourself), and you enjoy it (or at least don't hate it), and it's helping you to reach your goals, then fine. I personally would also throw in some heavy weight lifting (you are not going to "tone" or firm up with just cardio, though cardio is great for just sheer pure calorie burn, and you want to have a balanced work out routine).

I'm a runner, so 60 minutes of cardio is obviously not something I think is "too much", but my goals may not be the same as your goals, and I truly enjoy running that I find it hard to take a day off from it and am working on performance goals (not weight loss). I lift twice a week as well, which is not a lot per se, but enough to give my abs some definition and improve my running too, oddly enough.

In short, I think your work out is fine. If it's not working for you, or your goals change down the road, you can readjust your routine. But throw some heavy weights in your workout if you can.

Annesoucy1957

If you enjoy it do it, I certainly do enjoy what I do for me it involves some type of dancing zumba, soca, baladi cardio. But I alternate with toning.

xShreddx

Thanks all, much appreciated!

SingingSingleTracker

I've been doing cardio for 29 days straight now and have been mostly been doing 60 minutes per day. Is this too much? I've only lost 6 lbs so far but understand my body is adjusting to my new lifestyle and storing glycogen. I do 10 min of warm-up, 30 minutes of moderate, 15 minutes of aggressive and 5 minutes of cool down. Does this sound good? I'm burning anywhere from 500-800 calories per workout and ranging from 140-170 bpm which depends on what machines I'm doing. Is this a good plan?

At your age, you really ought to take at least one day off per week for recovery. You may also want to investigate training in different HR zones so that every day is not the exact same with the warm-up/moderate/aggressive/cool down formula. As an example - I would limit the number of times per week that you move into the "aggressive" HR zone for 15 minutes to maybe 2-3 times per week as opposed to every single day. That way you could - on those 2 to 3 days of harder training - hit a few more than 15 minutes of hard "aggressive" effort. On the other days of the week, you could spend more time in the warm-up/moderate/cool-down HR zones.

All in an effort to follow the training effect so your body has more time for recovery, so you don't burn out (29 consecutive days without a break!!!!!!), and to allow for improvement.

The motto should be "train hard, recover harder"...