How Much Exercise is Too Much Exercise???

Hi Angeleyes.

You should aim to do 1 hour of cardio when in the gym and 30 mins of weights, the first 30 minutes of your workout your only burning stored carbs, the second 30 your body will be burning fat, which if weight loss is the required result is what you need to do, easy exercise is to walk at a steady pace uphill on the running machine, this burns pure fat and wont tire you out to quickly.

Aim for 4 nights a week at 700-900 calories as it takes 3500 burnt calories to lose a pound of fat......

Good luck x

My advice would be to see how you feel. If you are just getting started with an exercise program I would definitely recommend that you wean yourself into it and try not to push yourself too hard, too fast because you will be burn out OR get injured. There is nothing wrong with doing part of your workout in the morning and the other part at night but you really have to listen to your body and do what is right for your body.

I have workout out none stop most of my life. I had a baby last year and gained 55 pounds. I have lost a lot of it, and I am back to exercising often. What is to much exercise? No such thing! As long as you are eating right and have enough fuel in your body and have the energy to do it, then go ahead and do it. I work out twice in the morning, and then once more in the evening before bed. Instead of sitting on the sofa when I'm bored or the computer, I will get up and move. So as long as your taking care of yourself and year health is good, why not? I work out 7 days a week, no days off! But here is the thing I do trade off my exercises all week long. So certain parts of my body get a rest. Like for me I will do 2-3 days straight of weight lifting "small weights", and then take the next day off from weights and just do my normal exercises. The days where I do pure cardio, I will work on my abs. So it helps the body to switch everything up so it works harder. Taking more time off does not give your muscles you are working more time to heal. You just don't want to work those same muscles over and over again, they do need to rest but not for 2 days. If that were true I would be a walking hurting mess.

My opinion, because I do workout again right before bed. Go ahead and do your kettlebell workout. Try it and see if it works for you. You don't have to do it every night, but I know for me I wake up feeling good knowing I had a quick workout in right before bed.

Hi Angeleyes.

You should aim to do 1 hour of cardio when in the gym and 30 mins of weights, the first 30 minutes of your workout your only burning stored carbs, the second 30 your body will be burning fat, which if weight loss is the required result is what you need to do, easy exercise is to walk at a steady pace uphill on the running machine, this burns pure fat and wont tire you out to quickly.

Aim for 4 nights a week at 700-900 calories as it takes 3500 burnt calories to lose a pound of fat......

Good luck x

somewhat.....

If only it was truly a numbers game.

Too much training is when you go over an hour and have to deal with any type of extra stress.
Cortisol is a hormone that is in our bodies all day but we have lower levels of it at night!
Unless we are stressed.
If you put extra stress on the body, generally after training for an hour or more, cortisol levels have been known to go up.
Cortisol is a catabolic hormone and is known as the "fight or flight" hormone.
It is known to damage or even consume lean mass for energy.

In my opinion you can get excellent results weight lifting with a proper program like Stronglifts 5x5 or Starting Strength for 3 days a week.

If you must do cardio, stick to 20-45 mins for optimal results.
If you fall within the Obese II or Obese III range, you possess enough ATP in your system to build lean mass while on a deficit!
Take advantage of this but please for the love of god take at least 2 days full rest to recover.
You will go nowhere fast if you dont sleep and get proper recovery.

As for the above statement it really depends on the time of the workouts when it comes to stored glycogen in the system.
If you run/walk first thing in the AM chances are youll get about 5-10 mins of stored glyco before turning to fat.
If you bracket bigger carb meals around weight lifting youll see amazing strength gains...as long as you are efficient.

At least 2 days rest!

Hello everyone, I just started really being faithful to MFP within the last week or so. I had gotten a free membership for 2 weeks to a gym here in town and used it up and joined it today for the month. I love working out, I used to hate it.... I normally will do 30 minutes of cardio and 2-10 minutes of general circuit training and then I will do about 5 sets of strength training rotating upper and lower body day to day. My question is this, if I want to come home in the evening before bed and do a kettlebell workout for 30 minutes, would that be way to much for me or would it be something to consider. I dont want to be unhealthy with this, I want to do what is right, but not sure what that is yet...... On average at the gym mon - fri I will burn around 450-550 calories per day and sometimes more than that if I push myself hard.... .so would it not be helpful to do more than that? THanks for any input you have.... will check back here later...=-)

You should rest at least 224 hours if not 48 in between strength training to allow your muscles to heal themselves. Otherwise sounds goo to me. I try to go at least 5 times a week for cardio or if noting else every other day.

My advice would be to see how you feel. If you are just getting started with an exercise program I would definitely recommend that you wean yourself into it and try not to push yourself too hard, too fast because you will be burn out OR get injured. There is nothing wrong with doing part of your workout in the morning and the other part at night but you really have to listen to your body and do what is right for your body.

Agree with this, just listen to your body but don't push yourself to hard to fast. Good for you for being committed