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Just curious why you are doing so much cardio if you are trying to add mass and not have hunger through the roof?
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Its a long story and more a topic for the health problems thread but the short answer is cardiac rehab after a heart attack.
I do 30min daily cardio with specific heart rate goals/limit 7 days a week plus 1 hour 3 days a week (mwf) of monitored cardio (at the hospital while hooked up to an ekg)
I also do 1 hour of yoga 5 days a week(m-f). This one is voluntary rather than doctor ordered and yoga is more a mix of cardio and calisthenics but leans more cardio to me. I could quit the yoga but it's the only one of the 3 activities I actually enjoy doing.
So I end up doing 2.5 hours of cardio mon, wed, fri, 1.5 on tue/thur and 30min a day on sat/sun.
I dont know if that's a lot or not cus I've never been big on doing gym cardio so it seems like a lot to me. Until recently I've always relied on my physically demanding job plus activities to cover my cardio needs but for the last 2 years I been working a sedentary office job so gotta do it.
I'm starting to add wt training with a little home gym I got setup
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Its fine to do the cardio (and good for you given your situation). You just need to eat more to compensate if you want your body to have available calories to build mass. You want to make sure you get enough protein and eat in a surplus while lifting in addition to your other workouts.
You don't need to go crazy lifting, just be consistent. You don't have to lift super heavy, do medium-ish weight and more reps rather than trying to lift heavy, less injury and more sustainable.
Also yoga is really good for you in general so thats a great thing to do.
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