R/xxfitness

Hi y'all. New here, both to this sub and fitness in popular. Thanks for being a exquisite community :) Sorry for the long submit but whats up you're right here so experience the storytime!

Background: 29F 56kg 164cm, currently misplaced 18kg via way of life modifications. I tune my food cause I'm a massive statistics nerd and feature stopped weighing myself but I've virtually stopped dropping weight - satisfied where I am. I devour ~2000 cals/day with 100g protein.

TLDR: how a lot schooling is an excessive amount of training? Can I do aerobic and lifting 5x/week?

Story: I've usually been quite energetic, but I become never a fitness center individual. My interests consist of remaining frisbee (running), hiking/backpacking, mountaineering, and exploring new locations. I ran a pair 1/2 marathons some years in the past. I even have a desk task, so I've by no means been sincerely ACTIVE energetic, but now not like I turned into allergic to moving around, however I even have in no way exactly seemed forward to workout for the sake of exercise -- or maybe enhancing my very own fitness. Fitness has usually been a need to revel in my pastimes, however no longer something I loved.

About eight months in the past my accomplice (rightly) stated it would not be safe for me to strive windsurfing due to the fact I didn't have the top body strength to reliably pull myself up. He changed into totally right and it changed into a real motivator for me to comprehend that to pursue things I locate joyful I need to get my act collectively. He's been wonderful supportive before-throughout-after my selection to get "hench" as he says [as a funny story]. (He himself is narrow however doesn't exercising out of doors our shared interests.)

So I began entering into crossfit and endurance biking. Cut to nowadays, I go to crossfit classes 4-5x/week, cycle or run approximately 4-five hours/week, and perform a little lengthy distance outdoor hobby as soon as every week. My beyond self might say "holy moley it is loads" but as I've eased myself into it, it doesn't experience like that a lot. BUT my accomplice's circle of relatives may be pretty unhelpful. They say I'm "hooked on workout" and that I'm injuring myself, although I do not know it and do not sense it. They've tried to gaslight me earlier than by using telling me I even have an ED because I counted energy to shed pounds. His mum specifically says I'm too thin (I'm now not) and that I in no way eat (I do, regularly and with gusto lol). I've published on right here earlier than however the lengthy and brief of it's far I'm very confident I misplaced weight healthily with a wholesome mindset. But this time it sounds like there is probably a few merit to their concerns?

As a long way as 'addicted' is going... I suppose it is a stretch. It's genuine that I changed my complete ordinary to accomodate workout, however I modified a lot approximately my lifestyle recently. and I LIKE workout, so why would not I need to in shape it into my normal existence?

I've additionally seen friends get strain injuries which have kept them from their pastimes for months at a time, and specially as I'm new to lifting and cycling mainly I get pretty a lot of motivation from them, so I'm keen to pursue enhancing at a safe pace!

My questions for this network:

Is it excessive or even obsessive to exercising for at least 1.5-2 hours a day, 6x/week? Surely masses of human beings do this. The world is full of expert athletes that educate for hours and hours an afternoon. My CF instructions have the same human beings in them every morning. I guess I'm simply looking for validation or reassurance... I'm no longer loopy, right? This is a completely ordinary stage of health and exercising for loads of humans?

Straight up, how lots do YOU exercise? This is a health subreddit, so I get it is no longer precisely a representative pattern of the populace. But among fitness nerds, what's the standard?