Apologies for the wall of text.

Okay before we get started I know the right answer is don't do so much cardio, but that literally isn't an option for me. I'm in the Army and my platoon sgt is a cardio bunny. My consistency was pretty good before this started. Nowadays, our morning pt sessions look like this; M,W,F 5 mile run, sometimes with last man ups for 2.5 miles. T: 1 mile run out, hill sprints, 1 mile run (total 45 mins-1hr) back. TH; medicine ball (25lbs) sprints approx 5-600m total 45 min-1 hour . Sometimes on Tues or Thurs we are allowed to lift weights, but it is always in a crossfit style and if psg catches us taking rest intervals he'll make us do sprints or sprints with kettlebells. The pacing of all this is way above my ability to talk, I usually am huffing and puffing and falling out or way behind.

So that's my reality. Before we started going this hard on the cardio I was doing pretty good with the mindset of "get in, do the reps, get out." But now I'm hurting and exhausted. It's at the point of lower back and hip pain. And the worst part is that I've lost ALOT of strength over the past couple months.

A bit about me; I'm 34, 190 (kinda pudgy, 23 ish percent body fat) 5'7". I've been eating /- 1700 calories a day with /- 130g protein, trying to loose some weight. (Been getting shit on for my appearance.) And I'm a Tanker, so I don't have an office job to recover at. I'm working on tanks in the Texas sun all day. And nothing is light, a road wheel is about 300 lbs.

Any tips, hints, or advice will be greatly appreciated. I don't want to give up and become a weak ass cardio bunny.