Do cardio after weights to burn fat

Posted on July 30, 2013 by john in Weight loss and diet plans

One issue that often times I have heard and a lot of people ask me anymore is when doing cardio if you want to combine with the weight, whether it should be before or after thereof.

I always thought that was a very simple answer and the many people domain, why should always do the exercise or anaerobic exercise weights before Cardio or aerobic exercise, but for a while I stopped to watch people who goes to the same gym as me.

Coincidentally, on the one side are those who just do weights and heated with a few sets at a low level, and rarely do Cardio because they are just in time, and many people who come to the area sweaty weights session after making his cardiovascular while we do weights Cardio after very few, and even fewer do HIIT but this is another topic.

With this post we will try to put some order in regard to the order in which they must perform cardiovascular exercise combined with weights, although it should be clear that should always be performed after these if you care about the amount of muscle, explaining why this decision.

Anaerobic exercise

When we do weights, within the fitness, we are referring to exercises which are mainly due to glycogen and amino acids in the muscles where oxygen is not required for it, hence it is called anaerobic.

Strength exercises are where raw intensity running, this is the key to fitness, in every movement of each repetition should maintain a high intensity, which maximizes the heart rate of the individual who practiced even to the muscle failure.

Aerobic Exercise

As a rule, when it comes to Cardio fitness we are referring to a cardiovascular exercise to a low or moderate rate at which energy is used for its realization as fat (mainly is what is sought), and muscle glycogen, always in the presence of oxygen, hence it is aerobic.

Keep in the gutter if cardiovascular exercise is performed at a very high intensity becomes an anaerobic exercise, this occurs when you go from 80% of our maximum heart rate is more or less what is known as anaerobic threshold.

Weights

In the fitness Cardio after weights always

When we weight the fat is not used as fuel, glycogen is always used as quick energy is needed and it can not come from fat so quickly. While the weights do not burn many calories (not as many as the Cardio) what are calories used glycogen.

It is therefore important to have deposits of energy (glycogen) filled just before you start making the weights in order to be on top of it and thus perform a routine to get the most intensely weights, within our possibilities.

If we do the cardio before the weights, and this is a fat-burning cardio such, it is usually understood as the cardio fitness, fat would throw glycogen primarily but also so that we would begin to empty glycogen stores coming with less energy to the weights session.

And of course, if the cardio is intense, it is not advisable, realize that intense cardiovascular exercise anaerobic exercise makes it almost exclusively which uses muscle glycogen so spend energy and could not do the weight workout 100%.
The mistake of doing the cardio before the fitness

You may think that doing cardio before weights is not a big mistake, because all you do is burn some glycogen and that the only problem is that the session carries weight not be able to be as intense or as long.

Actually having fewer glycogen deposits is clear that the weights routine can not be sufficiently long and intense, and we must be clear that performing a intense routine is the key to what is sought to fitness: the muscle hypertrophy.

But also, when you deplete glycogen occurs one thing to be avoided in the fitness, and the use of chains of amino acids that make up proteins of muscle to get the energy, which we all know as muscle catabolism, is ie losing muscle mass.
When to perform backward

Personally never advise performing cardio before, but if the main goal is fat loss only, regardless of the muscle can be performed backwards, even is good as well do it before heating serves to make the weights, since surely no have a good technical exercise performance and avoid injury.