Thread: Gaining muscle while doing tons of cardio

I know there are books out there like Tactical Barbell that can help you with building overall muscle and building conditioning.

1-1.5 hours of cardio every single day is kind of a lot, at a certain point your body will need some rest especially doing everything that you're doing. having some rest days is important too. trying to balance all of these things can be difficult and as a result usually 1 of the things have to give. So really depends what you want to prioritize.

For example for a few months, you could do the bare minimum to maintain your running but try to progress on your lifts/cycling. If you have a cycling off-season, perhaps you can just maintain that then focus on the other things.

If you aren't gaining weight, then you aren't eating enough so that's simple. Eat to gain approx 2 lbs a month but obv keep in mind how this may interfere with your other goals.

As for breaking plateaus it would be hard to say. It's certainly possible that you may be overworking yourself. If you find your lifts stalling, or even decreasing and/or you are feeling lethargic during your weight training then that might be a sign you may want to deload and give your body a bit of a break. Another thing you might want to look at is the RPE of your compound movements. If you're consistently training to RPE 9-10 then that could be pretty harsh on you. Even 8s could be hard so if you aren't perhaps mix in some RPE 7s with that. You can still grow like that.

Could also depend on exercise selection as well as some exercises can be inherently more fatiguing than others and how many sets of accessories you are doing.

Would be helpful if you could post up your workout routine.

How has your weight changed in the last month? Are you losing or gaining?

Concurrent training (doing cardio and resistance training) generally hasn't been shown to have any negative effects on the upper body. If you're not progressing with your upper body it may be due to following a suboptimal routine. Could you type out in more detail what your routine is? You didn't mention the number of exercises or training frequency?