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Which Should You Do First

FancyPantsFran
FancyPantsFran Posts: 3,687 Member
edited February 13 in Fitness and Exercise
When you working out which should come first Weights then Cardio or... Cardio then Weights??

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  • diggerless
    diggerless Posts: 2
    A 10 - 15 minute cardio warmup, followed by weights, then your proper cardio.

    The theory being that your body should ideally be fresh and co-ordinated when throwing metal about. You run the risk of injury from bad form if you have a fatigued body from doing your cardio first!
  • dbm037
    dbm037 Posts: 125 Member
    I do my cardio first. It warms me up and gets me ready to lift. But I am just starting a 12 week lifting program and it does not include any cardio at first :(. But I am really wanting to transform my body
  • navyrigger46
    navyrigger46 Posts: 1,301 Member
    Having done both, I now do my lifting first, more energy=more power=better workout IMO.

    Rigger
  • kawookie
    kawookie Posts: 813 Member
    When I had a personal trainer back in the day they always made me do a cardio warm up (no more than 20 minutes) and then strength and then more cardio.

    Edit: To read better.
  • Nikiki
    Nikiki Posts: 993
    I agree with the short cardio warm up followed by weights. I split my workouts so that I don't focus on cardio & weights in the same workout, might be the same day but in separate sessions. So I might run in the morning and then in the evening hit the gym for my weight workout.
  • FancyPantsFran
    FancyPantsFran Posts: 3,687 Member
    all great suggestions I think im going to mix it up been doing cardio first
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    lifting first. I want all my energy for lifting. I actually don't usually do cardio but on the rare occasion that I do, I do it after.
  • baby_valiant
    baby_valiant Posts: 86 Member
    Cardio to warm up first then weights. Need to get that blood pumping to those muscles before asking them to work!
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