2nd cardio question

[Dina]

I posted a forum earlier and it sees that you all needed a little more info to tell me if I am doing too much cardio or not. My first question was that my trainer told me that I am doing too much cardio and should cut back. I jog an hour in the morning 6 days a week and do an extra hour of kickboxing or high aerobics 4 days a week beside this I lift weights 3 times a week. Here is a bit more info about my daily diet. Let me know where I am going wrong. What I eat on a daily bases hardly ever changes. In the morning I get up and jog, get dressed go to work and when I get there I usually have a half cup of oatmeal with chopped fruit, sweeten with a packet of equal. This is usually around 8am. Then at about 10am I have some fruit (apple, peach, etc) and at 11am I have lunch because I need to run to school in my lunch hour. My lunch consists of a sandwich with no mayo, just cheese and turkey slices on low calorie 9 grain bread. Some days I have a diet coke and others I might change the sandwich to a Teriyaki Chicken (mostly I just eat the chicken and very little rice) with steamed veggies and a small side salad (about 1/2cup). The veggies have nothing on them and the salad has a vinaigrette. At around 2pm I have some saltine crackers or another fruit. My dinner usually consists of whatever is made, either meat and rice or another sandwich. But this time I usually add salad and cream cheese to the sandwich. Before bed I might snack on fruit or something small. This is more or less my daily intake of food. Nothing much changes. If some days I crave sweets I will have a one or two pieces of chocolate or make something sweet like cake (but never eat a whole piece). Also during the day I may have 2-3 pieces of hard candy. Recently I have began to eat a sugar free protein bar instead of oatmeal for breakfast and cottage cheese beside my sandwich for lunch.

One of you asked me when do I eat in regards to when I exercise; my aerobic classes are usually late for which reason beside a piece of fruit I don’t eat anything. Also, my weight training consists of 4 reps of 12 or along those lines. That’s my trainers forte, I just do what he says. J But he makes sure I am in a lot of pain the following two days. Anyhow I hope that answers all your questions, please let me know

[CJNY]

In the previous thread Cursor suggested not worrying about doing too much cardio. I would tend to agree. What constitutes "too much cardio" depends on what your goals are, but I don't see any way it's going to make you put on weight as you describe in the previous post. Too much might mean that you can't recover sufficiently (take a few days off and see how you feel) or that it is keeping you from gaining muscle (again, try a break, this time it will have to be more like a couple of weeks to tell).

There are certainly people out there who can manage the workload you describe with no deleterious effects. Perhaps you should ask your trainer to explain what negative effects he thinks you are experiencing from too much cardio. So far this doesn't make sense to me.