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Originally Posted by marygrace
I began New Rules of Lifting for Women last month and have been following the program, as well as doing HIIT after my weights. I'm just curious as to why it seems like doing cardio after weights is such a bad idea. Is it just to save energy for lifting or is there more going on?
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It's not so much that it's a bad idea. As Lou explains in it the original NROL, the body tends to prefer cardio to resistance training when it comes to the effect on itself, that includes muscle loss. Now, if you insist on doing cardio, it's best to do it after resistance to minimize the effect.
However, you can do energy system and lactic threshold developing using iron. That's the 2x25 scheme. Also, the 3x15 seems to work on that, as well as shortening rest times, as in the BSS and step-up superset when the parameters are 3x15 w/ 30s rest.