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Bodyrecomposition Mailbag 11

And yet another mailbag

Too Much Cardio Followup

In the last mailbag, I addressed the question of what defines too much cardio.  In response to that I got the following question that will let me address a few relevant issues.

Isn’t to some extent, exactly what The Biggest Loser folks do? Restrictive diet in the 1k-1.5K calorie range, and then extremely high volume, low-medium intensity cardio for hours and hours? Essentially burn 2K or so cals in 4-5 hours of various stupid cardio activities and be 2K or so under Sedentary maintenance calories with their diet? Trying to make a 3.5k+ deficit every day?

Now I’ve written about the Biggest Loser before, along with having had the privilege of receiving some feedback from an ex-contestant.    In a similar vein I have also written extensive series on training the obese beginner.  However, I didn’t really address the question above. … Keep Reading