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Cardio before or after weights session? - Apr. 25 2008 19:15:17
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halifax
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Is there any benefit to doing cardio before or after my weights session?
My gut instinct is to do it before, because after a run my adrenalin is pumping and i feel good, whereas after weights I just feel fecked!
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RE: Cardio before or after weights session? - Apr. 27 2008 11:21:50
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^ running for performance or fat loss?
Performance, keep it away from weights, do it on a different day.
Fat-loss, do half an hour after a workout before taking on any nutrition.
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RE: Cardio before or after weights session? - Apr. 27 2008 19:58:45
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dont do it before or after would you like to no why?
il find the article 
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RE: Cardio before or after weights session? - Apr. 27 2008 20:18:26
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you may find this useful:
Longer duration, lower intensity aerobic exercise tends to impact muscle growth
negatively and has less of an effect on fat loss. Though you may burn calories, this type
of aerobic exercise derives the majority of the calories burned from lean tissue and less
from fat. This is exactly what you don't want.
To minimize cardio's negative effects on muscle growth you must schedule your aerobic
sessions as distant in time from your weight training as possible. This means DO NOT do
both cardio and weight training in the same workout. Don't do cardio immediately before
you weight train and don't do cardio immediately after you weight train. This is how most
people do it and it's completely wrong and detrimental to optimal muscle growth.
Your cardio exercises should be done approximately 8 to 12 hours before
or after you weight train. Never do cardio immediately before or immediately after your workout.
This means if you train in the morning you do your cardio at night. If you train at night
then do your cardio in the morning. And to take it a step further, you should preferably
do your cardio on your non weight training days
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RE: Cardio before or after weights session? - Apr. 27 2008 20:19:22
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hope that helps
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RE: Cardio before or after weights session? - Apr. 28 2008 8:33:28
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I certainly wouldn't recommend doing it before a weight session. But doing it after is debateable.
Ideally it is better to keep cardio and weight training seperate, but I would say 20 - 30 minutes very low intensity after a weight session should be OK. It's not ideal and you have to really watch the intensity though since your bodies glycogen stores are already pretty depleated from the weight training. So the next energy source it wants to use is to break down muscle tissue or bodyfat.
If you keep the intensity low, hopefully you will be burning more bodyfat for fuel over muscle tissue.
If you are trying to build or gain muscle though, I would keep all cardio to a minimum.
Of course weight training does also yield some cardiovascular benefit aswell :)
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RE: Cardio before or after weights session? - Apr. 28 2008 11:39:14
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agree with all said, did you read the lil article i posted, about cardio before or after?
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RE: Cardio before or after weights session? - Apr. 28 2008 13:20:11
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Sorry to come away from the guys question...
Is it bad if i do my weights then eat (protein+carb shake included) and rest an hour before then going to rugby training??
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RE: Cardio before or after weights session? - Apr. 28 2008 13:25:58
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Sorry to come away from the guys question...
Is it bad if i do my weights then eat (protein+carb shake included) and rest an hour before then going to rugby training??
no that be fine, if trying to gain muscle you still will.
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RE: Cardio before or after weights session? - Apr. 28 2008 17:03:13
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if i do cardio, it is alwaysafter my lifts or on a seperate day
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RE: Cardio before or after weights session? - Apr. 28 2008 17:43:54
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Cardio before or after is fine if done sensibly.
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RE: Cardio before or after weights session? - Apr. 28 2008 20:43:59
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Cheers for the replies fellas.
I used to do morning cardio but my shifts in work have changed so im going to have to shoehorn it into my weights session.
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