I feel like over exercising has become popular, and not just for people who are
doing excessive cardio.
In fact,
doing excessive cardio is actually working against your results because you are stimulating excessive cortisol production in your body and breaking down lean muscle tissue... all of which leads to the slowing down of your metabolic rate over time and deposition of even more belly fat on top of what you already have.
A month ago I had a coach who had me on 1320calories a day and that's when I got rid of her knowing that even that was not giving me any results which makes sense becaue I work out 5 - 6 days a week and was
doing excessive cardio too.
Because I'm in maintenance and muscle build mode, and
doing excessive cardio has burned me out in the past, even to the point of adrenal depletion.
However, these serious problems from
doing excessive cardio are quickly and easily reversible.
Not exact matches
In other words, the more
cardio you
do, the more your strength and growth will be negatively affected due to
excessive stresses put on both the central nervous system and working muscles, causing your fat and muscles to shrink down at the same time.
When you drastically decrease your calorie intake while
doing excessive amount of
cardio exercises, you may end up losing muscles instead of fat.
If you didn't read the article, it states that
excessive amounts of
cardio will raise cortisol levels (which makes you hold on to fat) and cause chronic inflammation of tissues, which results in premature ageing, heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
Cardio for physique changes has only one purpose — burn
excessive calories, which you don't need if there's calculated diet plan.
And it doesn't involve dropping your calorie intake to dangerously low levels or burning through your muscles with
excessive cardio.
But steady
cardio fails you,
doing excessive amounts of it aren't going to
do you any good.
So, unless you've lost significant amounts of muscle from things like starvation dieting or
excessive cardio, your metabolism is working more or less as well as it
did when you were in your 20s.