Cardio - Am I over doing it ?

Supercell

I'm building up the amount of cardio I do slowly with an overall goal of building up to :-

Mon Evening - Jog 9.5 miles home from work (measured distance by car) (done in gym if weather poor)
Tue Morning - Jog 9.5 miles back into work (drive home)
Wed Evening - 45 mins Spinning in local gym
Thurs Evening - Jog 9.5 miles home from work
Fri Morning - Jog 9.5 miles into work (drive home)
Sat - Day off
Sunday - Heavy Spinning session 60 mins

I'm a fair distance short of doing this but am building up the amount I can do every week and am wondering if the goal above is too much to aim for ?

justsomebloke

well what are you specific goals. Are you doing any weight training aswell, how good is your running at the moment and can you live without the car some evenings

Also how is the diet going now that you are off the lipotrium(sp??) have you beeen able to keep the weight off just as a matter of interest.

Supercell

The biological clock is ticking tbh and I'd like to get into the best shape of my life while I still can(to see just how fit I can become), corney as that sounds. Wouldn't mind a six-pack either
I used to be extremely fit in my 20's and would have been doing a bit less than the target above but not hugely so, thus the bar is fairly high.

The fat person pre lipotrim is someone I don't want to meet again, ever. Some of my old bad eating habits have crept back in and so has about 5kg, but am still considerably less than pre liptrim, this time I'd like to get down to about 67KG , but by excercise and good eating alone.
Lipotrim was fine for when I was very overweight but now I can excercise without being the fattest person in the gym I'd rather stick to the steak's, chicken and veggies than the Lipotrim drinks.

copacetic

Longfield wrote:

I'm building up the amount of cardio I do slowly with an overall goal of building up to :-

Mon Evening - Jog 9.5 miles home from work (measured distance by car) (done in gym if weather poor)
Tue Morning - Jog 9.5 miles back into work (drive home)
Wed Evening - 45 mins Spinning in local gym
Thurs Evening - Jog 9.5 miles home from work
Fri Morning - Jog 9.5 miles into work (drive home)
Sat - Day off
Sunday - Heavy Spinning session 60 mins

I'm a fair distance short of doing this but am building up the amount I can do every week and am wondering if the goal above is too much to aim for ?

it doesn't sound like too much but also doesn't sound ideal either. if you make 2 of the runs 'jogs', one a 2.5 mile warm up, 4 mile hard run, 2.5 mile warm down, and the last run a bit longer than the rest say 50% as you build up the other ones, then you should see quicker improvement.

ideally you would spread a 40 mile week over 1 long run and 5 shorter ones though, if this isn't possible your schedule sounds ok..

Try doing some sprints as well maybe. Depends on what your goal is as well.

Sonderval

Seems like a fair amount of cardio to me. Well organised too. Is your objective weight loss?

LegacyUser

That is an insane amount of running. Do you not get bored?