Should You Do Cardio Exercise Before or After Strength Training?

The most frequently asked question I have seen countless times on online message boards is whether a person should do cardiovascular exercises before or after a resistance training exercise? Before I go any further, I want to make it clear that it is my position that everyone participates in the cardiovascular exercise of their choice for 5 to 10 minutes before any exercise, whether it is cardiovascular exercise, resistance, or flexibility. This is very important for a number of reasons, since proper cardiovascular exercise with a proper stretch will heat the muscles, ligaments, joints and tendons that will be used more intensively in the next exercise routine. Warming up the heart also slightly increases the core temperature, increases blood circulation, slightly increases heart rate, helps prepare the heart for increased workload, helps increase lung performance and helps you mentally focus on your next exercise routine. The most important feature of warming up with mild heart disease is the significant reduction in the risk of infection. If the body is not heated properly, it is more likely to suffer injury to the muscles, joints, ligament or tendons.

Now go back to the question of whether you should do cardiovascular exercise before or after a resistance exercise? There is no single best answer here and instead, you should evaluate your individual fitness goals. If you aim to increase stamina, stamina or cardiovascular health in general, I suggest doing cardio workout before weight and resistance training. By doing a cardio workout first (after a warm-up session of 5 to 10 minutes), you can participate in a more intense cardio workout session, which may include some breaks in which you already push to the lactic acid or VO2 level. You are unlikely to be able to achieve high-intensity cardiovascular work after you participate in a weight training session. Therefore, in short if your goal is to increase your cardiovascular fitness levels, you should perform cardio exercises before resistance training.

On the other hand, if your goal is to lose weight and fat, the current way of thinking in the fitness community by doing cardiovascular exercise after exercising resistance exercise, you increase the rate of fat metabolism (fat burning because it is often referred to as). The theory is that by engaging in an intense resistance exercise, muscle glycogen stores will drain during this exercise. Once the glycogen stores run out, the body begins to use body fat for fuel. Endurance athletes have long known this, but usually in order for this to happen in endurance training, the athlete must run for about 90 minutes to fully deplete the glycogen muscles. Therefore, I remain somewhat skeptical that many ordinary people who exercise exercise push themselves to the point of depleting glycogen while experimenting with resistance, especially exercises that are less than an hour long. For more advanced coaches, I think it is possible and therefore can be an effective way to possibly reduce body fat for these individuals.

I tend to look at it this way, if you participate in cardiovascular exercise and resistance on the same day in a row, one or the other will have a lower intensity level naturally. Again, evaluate your personal fitness goals before deciding whether to do cardio exercises before or after resistance training. If you're trying to build muscle, you want to get as much muscle as possible for your resistance exercises, so doing cardio exercises before weight lifting will have the opposite effect on your muscle building goals. If you are looking for stamina or heart health, focus on doing cardio and doing it first. Remember that no matter where you ended up first, it is important that you warm up properly with at least 5 to 10 minutes of heart disease (even if it's just a quick walk on the treadmill) in order to prepare the body for the next workouts -For getting your head in the right place in order to get out a productive workout, and most importantly to reduce the risk of injury. This discussion would mean nothing if you were injured for 5 minutes in an exercise and were marginalized over the next eight weeks to rehabilitate an injury!