Cardio before or after lifting weights?

After. Don’t drain your strength/energy by doing cardio first.

Save your energy for heavy lifting, then run with the energy you have left.

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What if you are a chick wanting to lose weight and tone up?

Would you still do strength training first?

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What if you are a chick wanting to lose weight and tone up?

Would you still do strength training first? (To clarify....chick type strength training....not crazy heavy lifting).

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After. It's more efficient.

Also, seconded on no such thing as lifting to tone. Weights build muscle and secondarily cuts fat. Diet cuts fat. Cardio enhances cardio and secondarily cuts fat.

Toning is just building muscle and decreasing fat. You won't be toned if you're not building muscle, that's skinnyfat. You also won't be toned if you build muscle with a lot of fat laid over the top.

Gender difference in lifting is overrated, IMO. The same basic principles are most effective.

On the original question, weights burn glycogen, which makes cardio after more likely to burn fat. Also, it won't take energy from weights and strength building.

Lifting changes body composition much moreso than cardio.

Get your lifting in when you’re fresh.

Lifting then Cardio.

HOWEVER, you can just split them up completely if you have time. Cardio as soon as you wake up (30-40 min) and lifting in a different session if you have time to separate them completely.

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Meant focusing heavily on cardio (spin classes on Peloton) to burn lots of calories. And doing strength training with body weight type exercises and also with lighter weights. Maybe the term “toning” was wrong one.

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I'm not trying to be a jackass. One of the nice things about this board is most people are genuinely trying to help.

If you're at home, there may be overall limits to how much you can work with.

That said, I've just seen too many people say lifting with heavier weights will make people bulky. It really doesn't. Lifting will just build muscle, but your muscle doesn't change shape as it builds depending on stimulus.

Sort of point being, heavier weights do offer benefits that lighter ones don't. Specifically, they allow you to progressively increase weight instead of having to increase reps to infinity. Rep increases eventually lose potency and also make a workout last forever.

My comment wasn't intended to be personal and more just to say that the "light weights tone, heavy weights bulk" thought pattern is a myth.

Oh I know lifting heavy for a chick won’t bulk you up.

I just currently like the convenience of working out at home.

(Don’t worry I didn’t think you were being a jackass)

Nurse, have you thought about just doing high intensity body weight programs?

Pushups, to running in place, right into burpees, etc... I think it’ll do what you’re looking for yet it’s wont take you an hour and a half to accomplish.

After. I made good gains still running after workouts. If you are going to run longer than 15 mins, you could get some bcaa’s or protein into your drink. It’ll help maintain muscle protein synthesis during your run but it’s not totally necessary.

True but I like to do it before quads. Then I do biceps then quads. My legs tend to lift better

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