Too much cardio? Bad cardio?

KGTraxler

I'm confused about the amount of cardio I should be doing. I do cardio 3 days per week and I do HIIT with weights 2 days per week. My TDEE is 2660. I try to eat 2000 calories per day. Is that okay?

sagj

If you are trying to reset and can't make yourself eat up to the 2600 TDEE at your activity level it may be worth dropping some cardio until it makes TDEE a managable goal. It doesn't have to be forever. I'm doing that until I'm done with reset and then increasing cardio to make my 10-15% deficit for cut.


HTH:flowerforyou:

Gapwedge01

I'm confused about the amount of cardio I should be doing. I do cardio 3 days per week and I do HIIT with weights 2 days per week. My TDEE is 2660. I try to eat 2000 calories per day. Is that okay?

2128 is a 20% cut. 2000 is closer to 25%. With all of the cardio you really should be at least 2260 or higher.

heybales

I'm confused about the amount of cardio I should be doing. I do cardio 3 days per week and I do HIIT with weights 2 days per week. My TDEE is 2660. I try to eat 2000 calories per day. Is that okay?

HIIT should be viewed as lifting but for sport specific cardio activity.

It is a fad approach to the fad of fat-burning zone that came out. Both have places in training program, both are next to useless if used wrong.

But, the HIIT was for cardio only folks to get a better effect when they didn't want to do lifting.

Skip the HIIT, just spend the time with more real lifting.

Besides, if you are doing the lifting correctly, there is no way you could do the HIIT correctly afterwards. Your muscle should be too wasted to allow getting your HR high enough if using the same muscles.
If you are doing it first, you are ruining the ability to put a truly heavy load on the lifting if using the same muscles.

So unless you are cycle or run training and need sport specific muscle strength, forget it.

Just do the calm cardio as warmdown.