Weight training & Cardio on the same day

do which ever is most important for you first..

on days when i do lifting and cardio and cant break it up into 2 separation sessions, i do weights first because i lift for strength and that's the one i need the most energy for. i can't imagine trying to deadlift 230 # after having done 45 minutes of cardio :noway:

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Quick question, on the days where my programme has me doing both cardio & weights on the same day, is it better to do the cardio 1st (but therefore tiring my body) or to do the cardio last (which can sometimes lead to skipping it because I am tired). Is there a rule?

Depends on your goals.

If you are planning/training to run a race in the future, then you'd want to do the cardio first and maybe the strength later in the day (especially if you are doing legs the same day).

If your main goal is body composition, strength increase and such, then you'll want to cardio last.

I always do my cardio after lifting. I've read that it's better for your body to do it that way, but the real reason I do it is I sweat a lot while running and don't want to get all the equipment drenched in sweat.

Weights then Cardio..........ALWAYS!!!!!! If you do Cardio before weights, 3 things will happen: You will gain weight, destroy your metabolism AND you will have decreased sex drive. SO be careful!!! I saw this on Dr. Oz, so you know its true. Good Luck

I've heard that while there haven't been any controlled studies done to show clear benefits of either order, that a lot of doctors believe that doing a warm up followed by weights will deplete your glycogen/glucose storage… so that your cardio is all fat burning. I'm not a doctor, so I don't know if any of this is true… but that's what I've heard. That's typically the order I do it in, but like you, sometimes after weights (particularly my leg days), I'm so worn out that cardio is akin to torture. I'm thinking I'll switch it up just on my leg days and do cardio first. Just to see how I feel.

Very few people will ever reach a point in a workout where they exhaust their glycogen stores. And if you do, you become so debilitated you can barely exercise at all--so that vaunted "fat burning" will never occur anyhow.

It depends on howyou feel . There is no rule at all. Sometimes I do cardio before lifting and guess what ? No energy loss . You know yourself better than anybody else

If I have energy left to do cardio on a lifting day, then I didn't train hard enough... :laugh:

I've googled this in the past and the final answer is that it really doesn't matter which you do first.

I've read that you are less tired if you do strength training before cardio... something about how your body uses a bit of anaerobic energy before aerobic... I don't know, but at the end of the article it stated the same as the others-- that it really didn't matter which you did first.

I find that I am less motivated to do cardio if I save it for last, so I started doing cardio first.

Now, I'm trying something new. I'm doing calisthenics first, then treadmill, then weights. Calisthenics warm me up better than doing a warm-up walk on the treadmill.

every single day...unless you are a power lifter or training for the Olympics....cardio is good for your heart every day.....

this is just my personal opinion...only