I know this question gets asked about once every five minutes, but in THIS case, it's different. 
But what can I do. Anyway, here's the situation:
I've been switching between being in and out of shape for the last three years of my life or so, mainly going to the gym until something stopped me (moving,, getting sick, etc.) and then getting out of the habit. I used to do a good weightlifting/cardio mix, which always seemed to be fairly effective, if slow.
I was in one of my off phases when I picked up fencing, which, say what you like, actually turned out to be really good exercise (I think it's something like intervals -- lots of doing nothing followed by insanely intense two-to-five minute bouts followed by nothing again). To my surprise, I started caring about being healthy, which meant cleaning up my eating and so on.
Anyway, I've been looking for more sports, and now I would sort of like to do boxing. There's a club at my uni, and they meet for two hours a day, Monday through Friday. So, here's my dilemma: I've done my reading, and I know that two hours of cardio per day is well over twice as much as I should be doing. Granted it's not going to be all out the whole time, but I'm fairly certain there will be at least 90 minutes of solid activity in there. To compound matters, I have fencing Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays about four hours later.
So, my question is this: first, is it OK to do the boxing, or is it going to short-circuit my weight loss? Second, if it is, is there any conceivable universe in which fencing would also be OK on the same days? Practices there run from an hour to two hours, by the way. I feel like this question is slightly different from the one normally asked, because I want to do the cardio for the love of the activity, not to accelerate the weight loss, which I think might be different.
Additional information/question:
So, these days I tend to eat a lot of salads. The past few days my diet has been mostly one turkey, avocado, and mozzarella sub (mm... healthy) and one chicken caesar salad per day (I split the sub into two meals) along with assorted snacks. Although obviously you can't really tell without seeing the sub itself, is this kind of thing too little? I used to eat all this precisely measurable protein powder and precise measurements of cereal and so on but at school that's sort of hard and frankly it sucks anyway.
Thanks for reading through all of this!
But what can I do. Anyway, here's the situation:
I've been switching between being in and out of shape for the last three years of my life or so, mainly going to the gym until something stopped me (moving,, getting sick, etc.) and then getting out of the habit. I used to do a good weightlifting/cardio mix, which always seemed to be fairly effective, if slow.
I was in one of my off phases when I picked up fencing, which, say what you like, actually turned out to be really good exercise (I think it's something like intervals -- lots of doing nothing followed by insanely intense two-to-five minute bouts followed by nothing again). To my surprise, I started caring about being healthy, which meant cleaning up my eating and so on.
Anyway, I've been looking for more sports, and now I would sort of like to do boxing. There's a club at my uni, and they meet for two hours a day, Monday through Friday. So, here's my dilemma: I've done my reading, and I know that two hours of cardio per day is well over twice as much as I should be doing. Granted it's not going to be all out the whole time, but I'm fairly certain there will be at least 90 minutes of solid activity in there. To compound matters, I have fencing Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays about four hours later.
So, my question is this: first, is it OK to do the boxing, or is it going to short-circuit my weight loss? Second, if it is, is there any conceivable universe in which fencing would also be OK on the same days? Practices there run from an hour to two hours, by the way. I feel like this question is slightly different from the one normally asked, because I want to do the cardio for the love of the activity, not to accelerate the weight loss, which I think might be different.
Additional information/question:
So, these days I tend to eat a lot of salads. The past few days my diet has been mostly one turkey, avocado, and mozzarella sub (mm... healthy) and one chicken caesar salad per day (I split the sub into two meals) along with assorted snacks. Although obviously you can't really tell without seeing the sub itself, is this kind of thing too little? I used to eat all this precisely measurable protein powder and precise measurements of cereal and so on but at school that's sort of hard and frankly it sucks anyway.
Thanks for reading through all of this!