Weights help ☺

sfriel68
sfriel68 Posts: 61 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hi all just started using weight machines at the gym , Gym staff made me up a wee programme. upper and lower body is on different days, I done upper body last night, is it ok to do lower body tonight or should I do cardio and leave lower body until tomorrow night?
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  • peaceout_aly
    peaceout_aly Posts: 2,018 Member
    Everyone has different methods of how they do lifting. Some people do upper, lower and then a day off. Some do cardio every day. Some only every other.

    From my personal experience, I've found that alternating upper body/lower body every day works best and I incorporate cardio into my daily routine. I take no rest days, but most people do every other, or two straight work out days and then a rest day.
  • whmscll
    whmscll Posts: 2,254 Member
    If it were me, I would do cardio followed by lower body tonight. But if you don't want to spend that much time working out, you can either do cardio tonight or lower body. It doesn't matter if you split up your strength days with cardio days or not. Depends on how your body is feeling and what your goals are.
  • Yi5hedr3
    Yi5hedr3 Posts: 2,696 Member
    Hit it again tonight. Cardio should just be once or twice a week, 20 mins ea of a HIIT Sprint 8 program. Any more cardio than this is counter-productive.
  • time2cutnow
    time2cutnow Posts: 150 Member
    edited February 2016
    whmscll wrote: »
    If it were me, I would do cardio followed by lower body tonight. But if you don't want to spend that much time working out, you can either do cardio tonight or lower body. It doesn't matter if you split up your strength days with cardio days or not. Depends on how your body is feeling and what your goals are.

    Cardio and lifting is a great combo, but it's highly recommended to do cardio after lifting rather than before (other than a warm up) to prevent injury.

    ETA: I just noticed you said weight machines.. I was thinking you were using free weights.
  • time2cutnow
    time2cutnow Posts: 150 Member
    Yes, absolutely it is okay to do lower body tonight. Why would it not be? Not trying to be rude, just curious as to why you would think it's not okay.
  • xcalygrl
    xcalygrl Posts: 1,897 Member
    Since you're working a different set of muscles, totally cool to do your lower split today.

    If you want to do cardio as well as lift, then do your lifting first so your muscles aren't fatigued then do your cardio.
  • sfriel68
    sfriel68 Posts: 61 Member
    Thanks 2 u all for taking the time to reply, much appreciated
  • sfriel68
    sfriel68 Posts: 61 Member
    xcalygrl wrote: »
    Since you're working a different set of muscles, totally cool to do your lower split today.

    If you want to do cardio as well as lift, then do your lifting first so your muscles aren't fatigued then do your cardio.

    I've heard this before, how do you warm up for doing weights when you do cardio afterwards?
  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    time2cutnow wrote: »
    Yes, absolutely it is okay to do lower body tonight. Why would it not be? Not trying to be rude, just curious as to why you would think it's not okay.

    I figure she planned to go to the gym tomorrow and didn't want to have to just do cardio since she'd done both upper and lower the day before and should have a rest day before hitting one or the other again.

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