Should you lift wieghts before cardio or cardio before weights?
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No...you lift weights before cardio.\n\n"Glycogen stores are stores of energy that your body uses during weight training and cardiovascular exercise. Although, during weight training glycogen stores are the only energy source used. Thus, completing your cardiovascular routine before weight training will substantially deplete your energy (glycogen) stores needed to complete a proper weight training program. Also, completing your weight training before your cardiovascular program significantly decreases you glycogen stores. So, when you begin your cardiovascular training your body burns less glycogen and more of your stored fat. In summary, to reach you optimal fat burning stages and to have the proper energy to utilize an exercise program, complete your weight training before you cardiovascular training. "
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You know this answer -- we all do.  But few have the discipline to do it.\n\n30 min to 1 hr of cardio and strength-training every other day.  Push to your own limit.  When lifting weights, use good form, slow and steady pace -- less weight and more reps for leaner, longer muscles -- heavy weights with reps to the very edge of fatigue for bulk.\n\nEat lots of fresh fruits and veggies, and avoid salt, trans-fats and processed foods.
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working out before dinner is a good choice.  you will increase your metabolism, causing a decrease in calories absorbed by your body.  You will actually be LESS hungry after the workout, and you will not get as many calories from your dinner.
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the thing with just having cardiovascular activity is--\nthe burn of calories happens only when activity is done...you stop burning once you stop the activity, whether its biking, running, or in your case, swimming. \nto be more effective in weight loss--i would recommend doing light toning weights (3 sets of 15) in a whole body workout, then doing cardio after weightlifting. This way, you are using short energy stores like glucose for the weight lifting, and are burning primarily fat during the cardio exercise. Also, weightlifting allows you to burn calories (as the muscle repairs) even after you are done with weight lifting, so you can still be burning calories 8-12 hours after your weight lifting session. \n\nAn additional way to lose some lbs--is by eating 6 small meals over a day, instead of 3 larger meals. The quantity is the same, but you space it out over more increments for a higher boost in metabolism. Hope this helps.
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Lifting weights without proper form compromises the end result of the exercise, also can lead to an injury,. Don't use as much weight only use as much as you can where you don't have to compromise the proper form.
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Strenght exercising. Lift wieghts. Eat more energy than you use. Just make sure that you eat alot of healthy foods, such as fish, nuts, vegetables, fruits, milk, whole wheat bread, dark meat chicken (muscle part of chicken).
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Actually, it's better to work out before breakfast to burn more calories, because your body will burn more fat because it needs the energy from you stored up carbs. Thus, you burn more fat because you haven;t eaten yet to get energy you would normal get from food.
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Weights, then cardio. If you're tired from the cardio workout, then lifting weights can be dangerous. I'd actually suggest you give yourself seperate days, possibly do your weight lifting/body sculpting activies on one day, and then do the cardio work on another.
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Cardio can be done in a variety of different ways, and I'm not just talking about activities. It depends on how much time and energy you put into it. \n\nYou can exercise at your target heart rate for 20 to 40 minutes a day 3 to 6 days a week. This is best for weight lifters. Some say as soon as you wake up. I say as soon as you are done lifting weights.\n\nAnaerobic cardio will take fat off quickly, however it requires moderation and would be best with a personal trainer or coach. This is when you push your body and cardiovascular power to the limits in short, rapid movements that require 10 to 30 second rests.\n\nAerobics are alot less stressful. Rather than killing yourself with high speed sprints that only lead to puking and short breath (save anaerobics for the athletes), running is alot better for the inexpirienced. You may even want to start off wih a walking combo. Calistenics are great, especially athletic ones (they sound girly but football players just call them agilities). \n\nCardio that requires your whole body to move is also good. Martial arts and swimmming are great. So is wrestling. You still want alot of work from your legs though, being that your quads, glutes, and hams ar your bigest muscles.\n\nWeight lifting also helps by increasing your metabolism with higher energy burning muscle mass that requires plenty of rest and nutrition just as it does training. And work your larger muscles (legs, chest and back) to burn the fat off of your entire body. Abdominal exercises only build muscle that pushes up fat. They usually are not enough to burn it.
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you should eat BEFORE you work out...\n\nhow important this is depends on how intense your workout is.  it's either important, or REALLY important.\n\nduring a workout, your body is using an energy source called glycogen to do it's work.  glycogen is the sugar stored inside your cells and in your bloodstream.\n\none reason to eat before the workout is you can have a better workout (burning more calories, and providing a bigger bump to your background metabolism), because you have more glycogen in your bloodstream, and as your cells burn the glycogen stored in the cells, they can get more from the bloodstream, so they don't run out of energy.  if your body (cells and blood) run out of glycogen, and all of a sudden your whole body feels like a lead balloon, that's called a "bonk".  that's why gatorade and powerade are sold, it's just glycogen to keep your muscles going, and electrolytes to help transfer the glycogen across through the stomach blood vessels and to the cells instead of waiting until the small intestine, which would take much longer.  gatorade would be most appropriate for something like a basketball game, soccer game, hard bike ride, etc.\n\ncontrary to popular belief, weight loss does not really occur directly from the calories burned during a workout.  the calories burned during a workout are almost 100% glycogen, unless you're talking about a workout that lasts for days.  the way it works is exercise increases your total metabolism, it's a slow process, BUT OVER TIME YOUR BODY CONVERTS FAT TO ENERGY TO MAKE UP FOR THAT CALORIE IMBALANCE CAUSED BY YOUR NEW HIGHER METABOLISM.\n\nanother reason you should eat before your workout (related to the first reason) is that if your cells run out of glycogen and can't get any more from the bloodstream, but work has been done, so energy is needed... the cells will actually "eat themselves", they will use protein WITHIN the muscle as an energy source.  a scenario where this would especially be true - if you didn't eat before your workout, and then did an intense hour and a half weightlifting, then you didn't eat for several hours after your workout... your body would burn through all of it's glycogen in the cells and in your bloodstream, then your body would still need energy to maintain normal "life", and the conversion of fat to energy is not nearly fast enough to help out... the end result being your muscles would "eat themselves" to keep the cell from dying.  so if you don't eat right (and at the right time) working out could cause you to lose muscle and gain fat, not gain muscle and lose fat.\n\nand strangely enough, before and after a workout, CARBS (in moderation) are good.  carbs are the only energy source your muscles can convert into energy they can use fast enough to make a difference.  BUT keep the carb intake low at all other times.\n\nthe thing to remember is that you are NOT burning off the fat AS you work out, you will burn it off in the few days AFTER your workout from the corresponding bump in metabolism.  if you think about what this means (the implications), you will see it totally changes your approach to the original question.  it becomes a "bigger picture" thing when you know the whole story.\n\ni actually eat BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER a workout. (an hour before, and within 20 minutes after).  this gets glycogen into the bloodstream for a more intense workout, and then maintains the glycogen level after the workout so my muscles don't self destruct.  and more active muscle means a higher metabolism, which is a good thing.
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Actually to avoid gaining weight it is best to eat no later than 6 p.m. and it is better to workout prior to eating as your metabolism is already increased by working out, your dinner will be consumed by your body faster.
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do alot of cardiovascular like jogging or swimming. u want to get a strong, healthy heart. and lifting weights doesnt hurt.
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Weightlifting can contribute to cardiovascular health if you do high-intensity interval training (HITT). It's all about getting the heart rate up to 70% (or higher) of your maximum heart rate (220 - your age) and _sustaining it_ for an extended period of time. (The key there is sustaining it)\n\nGenerally though, weightlifting does not help your cardiovascular health because of the intervals -- you lift in bursts, then take a quick break etc... You have to maintain a high heart-rate for extended periods of time to be considered cardio.\n\nTo answer your second question, weightlifting doesn't burn as much fat simply because to burn fat, you have to exhaust all the calories in your bloodstream for your body to begin converting fat into energy. Running for about 20 mins will exhaust all the calories and anything after that will start tapping into your fat reserves. With weightlifting, you're just focusing on one muscle group at a time, and again, you're not sustaining the heart rate to exhaust all those calories. If you do exhaust those calories, then your muscles wouldn't be able to lift anything at all.\n\nThat's why it's often good to workout first, and then do cardio after. Working-out exhausts some of your calories, and cardio will start tapping into your fat reserves.\n\nHope this helps.
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ok what are your fitness goals you mentioned bringing your weightlifting to an extreme and running.... for strength training you need low cardio heavy reps with low count on sets.  So your training the muscle to handle more weight.  Running on the other hand is higher intensity and you may loose some build.  The happy medium i recommend 3-4 sets of 10-12 reps.  Train one muscle group once a week, never train chest shoulders or triceps on the same day or day after.  These muscle groups are used together in almost all lifts so you'll tire really fast without a sucsessful workout.   Eat some lean protein meats tuna, egg whites, chicken breast... the best workout doesn't mean anything on a poor diet.  Try to get in 1-1.5g of protein per pound of bodyweight.  Cardio is either on your off days of lifting or after lifting NEVER run or do cardio before lifting unless its a short warmup.  Make sure you get your sleep because that is when you heal.  Use 3-4 different lifting techniques to train each muscle group.  Preacher Hammer curls are the prime bicep technique, one arm dumbell rows and shrugs are back's , french curls and overhead barbell extentions are tricep's, and squats and leg extentions are leg's, chest is dumbell fly's.  I always keep these lifts in my routine since they're prime muscle building techniques and throw in 2-3 others.  I can email you a complete workout sheet with lift tips and techniques I use if you like massure4hire@yahoo.com I keep it up to date on the PC.  Also keep a lifting journal so you can keep your progress and see where you need improvements.  I also log diet and suppliment info into mine.  Here is a free download to print the sheets http://www.trulyhuge.com/TrainingJournal.pdf and just put 3 holes in and put into a 3 ring binder.  Lastly you may want to look into a whey protein isolate a protein powder with amino acids and 0 carbs.  Take 30 min prior to lifting and again after lifting no later than 30 min after lifting and take with some carbs like rice or peanut butter into the blender with it.  Carbs are important in bodybuilding kind of like a shuttle to the muscle fibers for protein synthesis (healing the muscle) to take place.
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building muscle and doing cardio
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try weight training instead of just cardio  training
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If you workout twice a day cardio in the mourning and weights in the after noon, then drink a lot of water before you do your cardio but know until after food. then with the wights later on you should have eaten at least 1:30-2:30hrs before you lift.\nIf you workout once in the morning then have something after.\nIf you workout once at night have something before you train about 1:30-2:30hrs.