cardio/weight days

Deadlobster

Hey, quick question, I have been doing about 40 mins weights and 10 mins abs with about 40-60 min cardio. Mostly treadmill. This is on each given day that I hit the gym. I do this 3-5 days a week and have been doing for awhile. I want to drop about a stone (105 kilos, mostly just heavy, probably 10 kilo loss would leave me quite lean with no tummy).

Is doing cardio after the weights bad? or preventing the weights time working properly?

Should I have cardio 1 day, weights the next, cardio next day etc

Thanks in advance.
Dead

Essien

Deadlobster wrote: »

Hey, quick question, I have been doing about 40 mins weights and 10 mins abs with about 40-60 min cardio. Mostly treadmill. This is on each given day that I hit the gym. I do this 3-5 days a week and have been doing for awhile. I want to drop about a stone (105 kilos, mostly just heavy, probably 10 kilo loss would leave me quite lean with no tummy).

Is doing cardio after the weights bad? or preventing the weights time working properly?

Should I have cardio 1 day, weights the next, cardio next day etc

Thanks in advance.
Dead

I do weights then cardio pretty much every day I'm in the gym and I've been losing weight fairly steadily for about 2 months, so I certainly haven't noticed any problems.

With regard to how it affects your weight training, I suppose that depends on what you're concerned about. If your goal is fat loss, then simply focus in that, as opposed to muscle gain. You really shouldn't be that concerned about muscle gain when trying to lose weight/fat.

If you want to lose fat, you should be eating below your maintenance calories every day, as far as I'm aware this makes muscle growth as good as impossible for anyone but a beginner.

In any case, your diet will have a much greater impact on fat loss than your training routing. IMO, it's far easier to drop 500cals a day through diet compared to exercise, but doing both is obviously the best option.

HTH

lim abroad

If you're doing cardio and weights on the same day then you should do the cardio first. Look up ampk and mtor signalling pathways

Shane732

Google HIIT.

I'm far from an expert but there are much more efficient methods of losing weight than running on a treadmill.

btkm8unsl0w5r4

+1 for HIIT, it can be done on a treadmill, rower, bike anything really. I prefer cardio at the end, I know nothing of signalling pathways but all I know it is maximum effort for the weights, grind through it on the cardio, I am not going to lift depleted.

fitnessnow

I found do the cardio first then move onto weight training second, worked out well for me went from 121kg down to 93.5 kg