Dropped morning cardio....should I reduce my calories?

[JG1]

I'm cutting right now and have been doing morning cardio on my non-training days (3 days/week)....60 minutes on the treadmill @ 4.0mph, 3 degree incline.

I had to stop doing to the cardio because lately within the first couple of minutes of starting on the treadmill, my front calves pump up to the point that it almost has my in tears and makes the cardio impossible to do.

Now, I figure I was burning about 450 calories (I'm 200lbs) on the treadmill. Now that I'm not doing the cardio anymore would it be safe for me just to drop my calories down a bit...maybe a couple hundred to try and compensate for not doing the cardio? I was consuming about 2200-2250 calories on my non-trainign days, thinking of dropping it down to around 2000. This would only be on my non-training days, training day I go back to eating my BW x 12.

 

[Burning_Inside]

ya, if you're not doing cardio at all, then sure drop em down, but are you sure you can't cut well enough on the 2200-2500 cals youre taking in now without doing any exercise?

 

[JG1]

are you sure you can't cut well enough on the 2200-2500 cals youre taking in now without doing any exercise?

I don't know. I was making good gains at that calorie level while doing that amount of cardio...I figure if I drop the cardio I should drop the calories a bit also.

 

[JG1]

I always thought that calf pump was something weird about me. I had to live thru that during a 10K road race in '91. I haven't run since.

It's impossible to do cardio when your front calves pump up like that and the lactic acid kicks in.

 

[gonelifting]

Do you have access to a stationary bike? If so, I use that and almost put my heal in the strap (midway between the toe and heal) and takes the calves out of it.

 

[Ceebs]

Try not doing it at an incline. It sounds like you're flexing your foot too much in your stride, and making the tibialis anterior (aka "front calves") work overtime.