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Originally Posted by karky
Pretty basic question i know, i was asked about this recently, and i seem to have forgotten. I remember hearing that if you have to do both in the same session, cardio after weightlifting is better, but the only reason i could give was that cardio (in this case jogging) would make you tiered before you're weightlifting. But you're weightlifting would make you tiered for you're cardio if you put it last, so.. is this just one of those priority cases, or is there some fancy reason why you should do one before the other?
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Depends somewhat on the duration and intensity and the type of your cardio and also to some extent whether your weight training is a lower body workout , full body, upper body etc. workout ( or not ) on the same day you do your cardio.
What is a typical cardio session for you - duration ? intensity ? type ? Why are you doing cardio - toward what goals ?
One school of thought is that if your weight workout is focused on lower body on the same day as a cardio workout, that a weight-bearing cardio session before weights will pre-exhaust your legs. This is seen to be a good thing because it not only really warms up your muscles but because it also serves as a form of pre-exhaustion - so you can hit that muscle Fatigue / Tension level needed to spur muscle growth using much less weight. On top of that, if you don't do both on the same day and do a heavy leg workout on Day 1 and then do cardio on Day 2, by doing the cardio so soon afterwards, you may not be allowing opitmal time for muscle recovery to take place after your Day 1 workout.
Of course others would say never to do both on the same day ( as the cardio ) as it diminishes the intensity you can bring to your weight session...and that intensity should always be at it's best level possible.
Sometimes practical considerations make more sense...i.e do one early in the day and the other one at the end of the same day if you can...or if doing a full-body workout 3X days a week, do cardio on off days.