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Cardio First or last?

I have been struggling to lose weight lately and I am trying to decide that if I change the order I do my workouts if that helps.  Currently I am doing about 15-20 walk at 4.0 on the treadmill and then I do about 15 minutes of abs, 25-30 minutes of weight lifting, and then 30-35 of anotehr kind of cardio (usually bike or arc trainer).  Should I maybe do all my cardio first and then do weights? Any suggestions?

Re: Cardio First or last?

  • Lift weights first.  Cardio will tire you out and your lifting form can suffer, which can lead to injury.
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    Lift weights first.  Cardio will tire you out and your lifting form can suffer, which can lead to injury.

     

    This word for word.

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  • You want to do cardio after weights for the reason Brie stated. However, I'd move abs to after weights. If your core is tired when doing weights, you can injure yourself by not supporting the lift correctly or engaging your core to get the most out of it. So do the warmup, weights, abs, then cardio.

    As for the stall in weight loss, are you upping your weights (in weight preferably)? Sometimes you just need to confuse your muscles too, for example, if you normally do biceps, then squats, then seated rows, do that set backwards next time.

     

    Good luck! 

  • I have been gradually increasing my weights.  I use to workout every day but I haven't been keeping to a schedule so well the last two years (since I started a new job) and so I am trying hard to find a routine again and get back into things! I will try the suggestions you guys made and see what helps!
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