Side effects of too much cardio?

[Hattrickkk]

I was woundering if doing say 2xCardio 5 days a week is bad and would cause overtraining?

Or would it be better and your cardiovascular system improve in a sorter time?

I would be Mon,Tues Wed-rest and thurs,Fri,Sat

 

[P-funk]

twice a day?

intensity?

volume?

other training?



To many factors.

patrick

 

[Hattrickkk]

Say 3 days HIIT Sprints then in evening say 10-20mins of lite skipping and the other two days 20-30 min jog then 10-20mins of lite skipping?

 

[P-funk]

sounds like you need to read more about how to set up a training program.

check out the stickies.

patrick

 

[juggernaut]

Buy Patricks book. It'll help you.

 

[Merkaba]

why would you want to is the question?

 

[DIVINITUS]

Say 3 days HIIT Sprints then in evening say 10-20mins of lite skipping and the other two days 20-30 min jog then 10-20mins of lite skipping?

Wait..."skipping"?

 

[Marat]

Wait..."skipping"?

jumping rope perhaps?

 

[P-funk]

Just did a blog article on Cardio:

Cardio: Intervals, Tempo Work and Steady State — Patrick Ward, MS CSCS LMT

patrick

 

[juggernaut]

good read Patrick, just read it on the can

 

[gigaplex]

Two questions. Are you eating enough calories for all this? And are you losing lean body mass? If the answer to both questions is yes, then you are definitely doing some damage.

I have to admit, I am quite curious why you're doing this much cardio. Are you training for a race? Dropping fat?

I've heard of people doing steady state cardio like 10x a week to get past a plateau when on a cut and that can actually work. That's a temporary thing though and I'd look at other things before resorting to that. If you always do that much cardio then what happens when you hit a plateau? You can't really increase cardio to get past it since you are already doing the max.

 

[juggernaut]

this is a good question; it might also indicate that he is indeed too fat, if he trying to lose in a hurry.