Cardio before or after weights?

As above, it really dpends on your objectives and what you mean by cardio. There are a couple of reasons, largely around exploiting your easily available fuel stores to do the exercise whilst maintaining good form to avoid injury.

If you're using an elliptihell or stair climber then I'd advocate resistance first, because form on thse really isn't important. If you're running or cycling out of doors then I'd suggest resistance afterwards as both of those are more likely to hurt you if you reach fatigue from resistance training.

That's coming from the perspective of someone whose running and cycling performance is most important, for someone whose resistance training is more important then you'll get a different response.

I usually do 15-20 minutes of HIIT cardio then lift. The ONLY reason I do this is because I ASSUME if the cardio keeps my heart rate up then lifting after will contrubute to keeping it somewhat up there.

Again, just my way of justifying how i work out

I like to do an 8 min HIIT session after lifting, but that's my personal preference.

I save any long cardio for non lifting days if possible.

1.) depends on your goals

2.) a warm up is not cardio.
it's warm up.

3.) if you have no specific training goals- typically weights before cardio is a good rule of thumb

4.) if you HAVE a specific training goal and strength is it- weights absolutely before cardio

5.) specific goal happens to be an endurance training type thing- then cardio takes priority.

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I do weights first and then I do my cardio - 30 min to 1h of running. Otherwise I do lose strength on my weights if I do cardio first and my lifting and gains suffers. Some people say that if they do cardio after weights it decreases muscle and strength gains. Personally I find it nonsense. Tried doing only weights without cardio at all and have noticed no difference from what I'm doing now. But of course we all are genetically different so you might find otherwise.

I don't do them at the same time unless it's necessary. I do cardio in the morning and weights in the evening. I can never find the energy to give both the attention they need for success if I do it all at once. Cardio usually lasts about an hour and weights about an hour. So I break it up. Most of my friends do both. 20 minutes of cadio before they lift. I just need more cardio.

I would do a 15 min warm up at 5.5-6 mph on the treadmill, then weight lift.

I would do my cardio - 45 min to an hour at 6.5-7 mph on my non weight lifting days.

I like to do it before so my heart rate is up before strength. I wear an HRM for both and I see a larger calorie burn on the strength when I do it this way.

I strength train 5 days a week and always do my cardio AFTER for about 20 mins or so. On the days I don't strength train I do a longer cardio session.

The way my husband and I work out is; we run on the treadmill for 30 minutes to get our cardio then we move to the weights. We usually work out at the gym for 1 hour and half every other day. But everyone is correct though it depends on how you want to lose the weight or gain muscle.

I like doing strength training after cardio. I find that I need more energy for the weights, and the cardio afterwards actually helps me shake off some of the muscle tension.

I mix it up depending on my weight lifting schedule. On leg days I'll do about 15 minutes on an elliptical or rowing machine, work out legs and then go back to cardio (if I have enough energy - which most days I do) then I'll do 30 more minutes on the stairs or something. On days I'm working out arms I'll do more cardio first. 20 minutes rowing, 20 minutes stairs and 20 minutes bike. I get bored if I'm on one machine for too long.

When I was concentrating on powerlifting, I always did my lifts first, conditioning after. 220 lbs(that's heavy for me) squat required me to be fuly focused. If I fail during conditioning, the most that wil happen is I have to stop and catch my breath...if I fail during a heavy lift, I might seriously injure myself. Anyways, that was my reasoning.

Now I am concentrating on kb sport and my "conditioning" comes first..which is my longcycle(clean and jerk with a kettlebell). I guess that could be considered strength endurance..but just to make this simple..my conditioning comes first for the purpose of competing in kb sport since endurance for me is important and right now i SUCK at it. Then I work on additional conditioning and some of the lifts like squat, bench or deadlift but with 50-60% of my max weight than when I was concentrating on my powerlifting.

So for me it depends on what my goal is. When I cycle back to powerlifting after my kb sport comp, I'll go back to conditioning after.