My Job Requires Me To Work Out Every Morning, But I Want More, How Much More Should Or Could I Do?
Posted by Zolly | Under Nutrition Thursday Dec 17, 2009I work out as required at work averaging 100 minutes of cardio per week (moderate intensity), and 60 minutes of moderate calistenics per week. I want more though, I want to lift weights (have been) and do my own cardio to increase the definition in my muscles. According to the Nutrition Facts website though, I need to be eating almost 4000 calories for the amount of exercise I’d like to be doing and have been doing. I can’t afford to eat enough for 4000 calories a day, healthy food that is. So I guess the question is, would it be so bad if I did it anyway? Is this calorie intake thing a straight jacket?
Can’t you just reduce the amount of cardio and replace some of it with weight training? That does seem like a lot of calories to consume. The good thing about weight training is that the muscle you’re building/defining will burn calories for up to 72 hours after you’ve worked it out, that is if you rest at least 48hrs before you work out the same muscles.
oh, are you required to do that much cardio?