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ebo0763
10-22-2006, 08:17 PM
Should i do 30 min cardio before or after my 30 min weight lifting session to burn more fat?

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Naxis
10-22-2006, 08:41 PM
Do cardio after.

Hitmen
10-23-2006, 10:22 AM
Cardio after. You want to focus most of your energy on the weight training.

david614
10-23-2006, 08:51 PM
I agree...cardio after. If you wear yourself out before doing weights, not only might the quality of your resistance training suffer, but you might hurt yourself because you are tired.

DMN
10-28-2006, 07:26 PM
Both!

10 min light cardio before lifting. Warms up the body.
20 min cardio after lifting, then stretching, then post workout meal.

burpee
11-01-2006, 07:56 PM
Should i do 30 min cardio before or after my 30 min weight lifting session to burn more fat?If there were such a thing a "burning more fat" by choosing exercise types in a certain order - then the answer to your question would be whatever routine allows for the highest caloric expenditure across both types of exercise.

I don't know anything about your workout intensities, so I can not answer your question. It's unlikely that there is any answer, as exercise intensity and routine are highly personal and dynamic in nature.

finallyready
11-02-2006, 02:40 PM
Here's my thing, I enjoy the weights more than the cardio, I find if I do my weights first by the time I'm done I just want to go home & I tend to cut my cardio short or skip it. If I do my cardio first it kinda gets me pumped up and I still do my weights after. In this case I want to know if it really makes that much of a difference what order I do it in and also isn't it better that I'm at least doing them both rather than cutting the cardio short or skipping?

Also next question if I want to do 60 min cardio but I get bored on one machine am I still getting the benifit if I do 30min treadmill running, 20 min ellyptical and 10 min bike? No resting inbetween.
Thanks

BuiltToLast
11-02-2006, 04:31 PM
You should always do a little bit of cardio before weight lifting, as it gets your blood pumpin and heart rate up a little bit so that when you do go to lift you will get a work out as soon as you start lifting, where as if you go strait into the weight lifting you are now going to get your body going and heart rate up for the first 5 minutes or so, which by now you wasted 5 minutes of weight training. And remember stretch! get your muscles lose, and tender so you can feel the burn!!:blob_fire lol g'luck man

finallyready
11-02-2006, 04:41 PM
I know that but I want to do my entire cardio before weights to get it out of the way....am I really loosing too much of the benifits from the weights?
Also next question if I want to do 60 min cardio but I get bored on one machine am I still getting the benifit if I do 30min treadmill running, 20 min ellyptical and 10 min bike? No resting inbetween.
Thanks

BuiltToLast
11-02-2006, 04:49 PM
as long as your heart rate is going and your bodies moving yes, however youd be most benifitial using the eliptical seeing as its lower body and upper body movements, but other then that ya its basically the same.

 
 
 




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