Cardio am I doing to much

Well, it would all be opinions I would think. I don't think you can do too much cardio as long as you are fueling your body. I would think you would be better off throwing weights around a bit more often, but that's just an opinion.

I m doing 3 miles 5 days on the elliptical along with 3 land zumba and 2 water zumba classes in a week. I also lift 2X week. Should I cut back on my elliptical distance on my lifting days? I was thinking I am pushing to hard and not lifting enough. I have a mind set that I have to do 3 miles or my day is not complete. I was thinking dropping to 3 days a week of elliptical 3 miles then the other 2 miles on my lifting days. My Zumba days are Monday 2 classes Wed 2 classes and Thursday 1 class. Please help I confused.:huh:

I'm going to say it depends on what time of day you are doing it. I hit the gym to do the Elliptical first thing in the morning after work and then did an evening Zumba or similar class. But I had time to sleep between exercises.

I did notice that I stopped losing weight when I was doing both every day so I cut back and started doing more squats/ Lunges and lifting classes instead.

Where do you want to go from here weight/ Toning wise?

I think you will be pleasantly shocked what would happen if you cut back on your cardio and upped your weight training. I used to do like an hour of cardio and an hour of lifting 4-5x a week. About 2 months ago my trainer suggested that I try to limit my cardio to a 15 minute warm up and a 10-15 minute cool down per day, and spend most of my time lifting...and the scale started moving again for the first time in 3-4 MONTHS. My body is changing shape too...

You could tell me you do cardio every day for 3-4 hours and I wouldn't ever say you are doing too much. I don't think there is such a thing as long as you are fueling your body.

It really is just preference in my opinion.

Pretty much this.

I agree with whoever talked about upping the lifting and letting go of a bit of cardio. Lifting kicks *kitten*!!

sorry if i missed it but what are your goals?

if you actually like doing all that cardio then go for it. doing something is better than nothing. but if you're doing it because you think you need to to help preserve muscle while you lose fat, then there are far more efficient ways to do that.

On a good day 1,500 -1,600 calories that's a day

Holy Cow! That is a lot of Cardio. I don't think it is too much. It beats the alternative--being lazy or snacking. If you don't mind me asking, how many cardio calories do you burn daily/weekly?

It all depends on why you are doing the cardio. If your heart and lung health is your #1 top priority, then you might be on-point, though you'd likely be getting better effects from 12 minute HIIT sessions every other day. If your massive volume of cardio is an effort to create a deficit despite still eating a lot, well, that's really a matter of preference. Personally, I'd rather not spend so much time burning calories just to burn calories, but if you enjoy it then that's a different story. All that medium-intensity steady-state cardio IS catabolic, though, so if you're not lifting along with it, you're going to be losing muscle steadily.

I'm one of "those" people that is a big fan of lifting & just using cardio to keep in good cardiorespiratory health. There is no reason to do a zillion cardio sessions a week unless you're training for some kind of endurance event. If you're trying to lose weight let your diet do the work, not cardio. If you like Zumba, then cut it to a couple of times of week and spend the rest of your time lifting. If you get on a good, proven training program and stick with it I GUARANTEE you that you will see better results than all the cardio that you're currently doing.