Do you burn more calories if you do cardio first or lift weight after??!
Question: OR vice versa..
Im just wondering which one to do first. I need to know from experts only please??
Answers: OR vice versa..
Im just wondering which one to do first. I need to know from experts only please??
There is some recent research that shows that performing high-intensity cardio AFTER your weight training is more effective overall at burning fat (especially abdominal fat) then performing cardio first or by itself.
The physiological reasons for this have to do with how your muscles use stored energy in the form of muscle and liver glycogen to fuel weight training. When you perform resistance training your body first uses stored muscle glycogen (of which there is a limited supply) and then it turns to glycogen stored in the liver. Once liver glycogen is depleted, the body turns to a combination of lipids (stored fat) and protein to provide energy to your body.
Weight training depletes muscle and liver glycogen more quickly than cardio, so when you perform cardio AFTER your weight training, when less glycogen is available, your body may burn more fat during cardio. Or so says the theory.
You also want avoid being fatigued when you do weight training, and if you do a 30-40 minute session of cardio prior to resistance training, you may find that you become tired more easily and are not able to lift as much weight (this is because you have less glycogen available to perform work.)
Finally, you SHOULD perform a light cardio warmup (no more than ten minutes) prior to weight training. Follow-up your weight training with 25-30 minutes of high-intensity cardio (sprinting on the treadmill, for example, or taking your heart rate up into the 80% max heart rate zone/MHR) for the best fat burning results.
Also, performing both types of exercise are ideal for fueling fat burning. Cardio burns more fat DURING exercise than weight training, but weight training burns more fat AFTER finishing the exercise, than cardio. This is because in the course of repairing itself, muscle will burn fat for energy ... and this persists for hours after finishing your weight training.
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Best of luck!
cardio first because your body needs to warm up and start sweating a little
the more you are warmed up and start working on your abs, the better it will look
Both will burn the same ammount of calories.
I lift weights first, because lifting weights is highly stressful, and therefore waste is created by your muscles.
Doing cardio after this waste is created helps to flush the waste out of your system.
I'm not an expert, but I've read a lot about exercising. you should do cardio first, then lift some weights, then more cardio, then more weight. cardio gets oxygen to your bloodstream and into your muscles so you can lift more weight with less damage. it also gets carbon dioxide out of your bloodstream and other tissues.
u r rite cardio first
coz u need to warm up first