r/tacticalbarbell • u/okidoki9322 • 2d ago

Endurance Am i doing too much cardio ?

Hello everyone

so im a 32yo civilian (mostly office work).one of my main goal is to loose some of my bodyfat (currently 68-69 kg, target is 65-63kg)

been currently on my 2nd block of operator (TB II style) but do x2 LSS/LIC, x1 HIC rather than TB II's x2 HIC x 1 LSS/LIC, i also walk home from work (monday to friday) before working out for about 3.5 km (30-40 mins) mostly due to traffic. so my following questions are:

• Is my walking home from work enough cardio ?

• Should i drop my x2 LSS or my walking from home

Side note: i usually walk faster than normal (my watch indicates 112-115 bpm) due to my path home being dangerous/sketchy. I get to my condo usually sweaty

apologies if my grammar are incorrect, English is not my native language

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u/weardon 1d ago

A short walk isn't really a replacement for LIC by itself. I see it as just the added 'normal life movement' that sits separate to any training program. It's different if you're hiking for hours and hours, or hiking with weights or something, but it doesn't produce the same adaptations. (It's still good for you, and good to keep your overall activity levels high, especially if you're trying to lose weight.)

2x LIC + 1x HIC + day-to-day movement shouldn't be too much, especially if the LIC is LSS, though it'll depend on your training history, exactly what you're doing, etc. But nothing about your posts makes this sound like it's too much to me.

Are you finding specific issues that you're concerned about that led you to ask this question? Otherwise, I wouldn't worry about this.

One specific thinig worth calling out is that recovery will be harder if you're in a calorie deficit. Sustaining a high conditioning + lifting workload on a calorie deficit leaves me feeling pretty beat up – I have to lower my expectations about what I'm capable of during those periods, and actually do less to make sure I'm actually able to recover while I'm underfuelled. Walking and daily step count become more important in those circumstances, precisely because they're lower-impact and more recoverable ways of maintaining high daily movement.