Thread: Looking for advice

Okay lots happening here .. Your training is complete shit. (sorry for being so blunt). Cardio 6x a week is way too much, and is just going to leave you 'burnt' out and can actually be negative to results. Ever wonder why the regular cardio bunnies are never all that lean? Also the fact that your 'don't really control what you eat' is a HUGE concern. Diet is at least 50% of the battle, if you want to live a healthier life with a much more appealing physique you need to set yourself up with healthy eating habits. Period.

So for training:
READ THIS
For Diet:
READ THIS

I know it's alot of reading, but remember this is not some type of 'quick fix' its a lifestyle change, and what's the best way of sticking with something? By educating yourself and understanding the purpose of what your eating, when your eating it and why your eating it.
After you've read the following information try and put together your own type of plan, post it and we'll critique it and give feedback on how to improve it. Remember though, start with small changes, don't except to have a perfect diet/training routine right away, you'd only be setting yourself up for failure.

Good luck man!

Yes, as Tom said, read the stickies and then figure out a game plan. Come up with a diet plan and post it and we can critique it for you. The first thing to do is read and learn why and how to do this

Is cardio 6 x's a week really that bad for you? I mean can it really have counterproductive results?

I'm a runner, and I run 5 mornings a week...can't I just compensate for this by eating mroe calories?

Depends on your goals, and what you are looking to achieve.

For the past year/year and a half, I've just been educating myself on training/diet, and have basically jsut tried to adopt a healthy lifestyle.

I feel like I've done that though so I'm starting to stick to a strict workout regiment, diet (balanced, six meals a day, whole foods) and slowly increase my cals to put on a little weight...want it to be all lean, and just let my body fill out.

Could running 5 mornigns a week jeopardize that?

It may ...
Remember the Human Body is a very adaptive thing, you overload it with cardio over a long period of time, it's going to adapt. (espically if it's the same type of cardio over and over). It's the reason you see so many of those cardio bunnies never going anywhere in terms of physquie at the gym. You see them always doing cardio, but never getting any smaller or leaner. Why? Becuase they're doing the same thing over and over, and their bodies have adapted to it.

You can run 5x a week for PERIODS of time. (even though if you ask me it's still pointless..) . Just remember to take breaks from the stuff and scale back .. also mix it up frequently (meaning don't only do steady state stuff, or only HIIT. Vary it).
Also know that you don't need cardio to get lean .. With my current program I do no cardio, and have managed to drop bodyfat.