Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 383, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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Cardio before working out?

vivavegas02
vivavegas02
Posts: 96
Joined: 2004/03/18
United States
2004/05/03, 11:16 PM
The Fitness Instructor at my gym told me to do about 16 minutes of cardio before I do weights. He said something about getting oxygen for your muscles to burn fat. But I read on here somewhere not to do it like that. What should I be doing? I do about 30 minutes of cardio after my weights.
garvani
garvani
Posts: 43
Joined: 2004/04/01
New Zealand
2004/05/04, 12:47 AM
Do a 5 minute warm up of cardio, then hit the weights. After which do 30 mins of cardio this way you have used your gylcogen efficently and will burn fat during your cardio routine. There are heaps of post's that allready go into this in great detail, i suggest reading some for further info...
bb1fit
bb1fit
Posts: 11,105
Joined: 2001/06/30
United States
2004/05/04, 10:26 AM
Your trainer is wrong. Find someone else. Your priority should always be resistance training first. The benefits of it far outweigh any calorie burn you get from cardio. You simply reduce needed glycogen stores that could be much better utilized by doing cardio first.:big_smile:

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