re: Am I doing too much cardio?

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But seriously, if you follow all this good advice to start progressively training weights, then you have to give up the cardio for the first few months you are doing that or you won’t recover. I know you won’t listen to this advice, but it’s correct.

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He is doing an eliptical, not running marathons daily.

I have never seen anyone in good shape on an eliptical, ever.

Certain ellipticals are useless. Many of the ones I've seen in commercial gyms don't really do much for you. There isn't enough in the resistance settings to get a good workout. We bought a cheap one from Sears when we were in college, and that thing would give you a workout. No fancy screens, it just had a timer/clock on it, and a dial for resistance that was tied to a cable. I'd use it 2-3 times a week for 30 minutes and it was great.

The word cardio is misleading though. I don't want to get into aerobic vs anaerobic and other things, but just doing something simple for a long time isn't great. You need some sort of intervals or variance to exercise. If all you do is a half hour at the same speed all the time, all that will really happen is your body will get really good at doing that thing for that amount of time.

Totally agree. The elliptical felt way easier because it was. It would say I did 900 calories like OP says, but there is no way it's more than half that. I get that it's better for joints to have the lower impact for some folks.

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If we really wanted to get spicy throwingh in the data and peer reviewed studies on animal protein and how shifting even just a portion of protein sources to plant based remarkably impacts longevity, cognitive function and body function but that is a hornets nest generally best left unprovoked.

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Problem is there isn’t a single true study on that. If you are talking correlation study, fine but if looking for actual causation study, you would be wrong. But believe what you want

And let the skinny fat joggers believe what they want

When they are 65 and can’t get off the toilet or are constantly falling. They will understand

Exactly what it is. It’s been shown many on those countries though eat in a slight deficit but who tf cares about that when you can claim it something else…right?

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You’re not doing the elliptical hard enough man.

Work as hard at the elliptical as you do running and you’ll be fine.

I used the elliptical as my only cardio to drop 20 lbs in 8 weeks for a show.

If you like running that’s fine. Nothing wrong with running. But I promise I can burn as many calories on the Y elliptical as you burn running in the same amount of time. Just gotta put in the work.

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I do have it at it's highest setting

My bad! I love using my Elliptical at home while watching Forensic Files

35. OMAD is incredible and got me in shape from nearly being obese.

I only do cardio on days that I lift weights using upper body. Shoulders, Back/Chest, Arms.

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The goal is to increase that VO2max

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if thats your goal then yea you are on right path

when we say right amount of cardio is none we are talking about guys looking for aesthetic changes that are jogging a good bit throughout the week.


i define jogging as anything over a 400m
really for most its anything over 100m and nothing over 50m is really 100% full speed for a non trained individual.

there is absolutely nothing wrong with doing cardio...its just jogging or elipitical is going to hurt your physique goals

i personally like doing strong man conditioning or hitting the heavy bag.

but for physique goals, nothing beats heavy arse lifting, walking with possibly something like a 10-12 min metabolic conditioning exercise at the end.