# Minimum cardio related with the templates
**URL:** https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/minimum-cardio-related-with-the-templates/14817
**Category:** Training Q&A \[Moderated\]
**Created:** [October 12, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/minimum-cardio-related-with-the-templates/14817 "2024-10-12T14:14:25Z")
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### Author:  [@Changhyeon\_Kang](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Changhyeon_Kang)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/minimum-cardio-related-with-the-templates/14817/1 "2024-10-12T14:14:25Z")
Hi coaches,
I have pretty much most of your templates.
As far as I know minimum cardio should be 150 min (when moderate).
But most of the templates have 4 x 30min zone 2 maximum which lacks 30 min.
So my question is that is lacking 30 min intended cause we do cardio in life like walking, moving, etc?
Or can I do 5 x 30 min zone 2 (I’m on BB II currently)?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Jordan\_Feigenbaum](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Jordan_Feigenbaum)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/minimum-cardio-related-with-the-templates/14817/2 "2024-10-14T13:58:31Z")
Good question. I’ll try and be brief.
The guideline minimums are as you stated, e.g. 150-min/wk moderate or 75 min/wk vigorous, or some combination of the two in order to reach 500-1000 MET-minutes per week.
Most of our templates meet or exceed the latter (MET-min/wk) target, though I don’t like METs or MET-min for prescriptive purposes. I also would generally prefer most people to perform more conditioning, though I don’t think most of our template users are endurance-focused individuals and/or have an extensive endurance history. Rather, most are looking to get strong, gain size, power, and so on. So, most of the conditioning recommendations on our strength/size focused programs are on the conservative side with respect to volume (minutes/wk), though I think the training load for _most_ of our templates meets the minimum prescription without drastically increasing the risk of overuse.
I don’t have an issue with you doing an additional 30-minutes of conditioning per week, as I suspect this would be well tolerated, especially if you’re a few weeks deep into the program and doing fine.
-Jordan