subject: Lose Weight - Burn More Calories With Cardio After Resistance [print this page] Lose Weight - Burn More Calories With Cardio After Resistance
Have you ever wondered what the best sequence is to complete your workout and burn more calories? Which is the more beneficial; to complete cardio-vascular workout before my weights programme? Or vise versa? This is one of the common questions I get asked on a weekly basis. This really depends on what you're training for, but most of the people that approach me are talking from a calorie-burning or fat-loss point of view and want to burn more calories. So, this is based from looking at the fat-loss angle.
When training or going to the gym there are many myths and "tactics" on which are the best ways to exercise. One myth that people commonly adopt is that it is "better to do cardio-vascular exercise before the weight/resistance training. But, from a calorie-burning point of view, this is incorrect.
It is much more beneficial to complete resistance training and then progress to do a handful of short-burst cardio sets. The reasoning behind this is as following; when you have completed your resistance training, you are naturally depleted of glycogen. This encourages your body to use up stored fat as energy more effectively compared to any other time. Hence, you burn more calories.
So, at this point, the key is not to 'overdo' it on the cardio because that could prove counter-productive. Instead, try and complete short interval sessions. For example, if you were on the treadmill, spend 2 minutes walking at fast pace, and 1 minute running. Alternatively, you could be continually exercising at medium pace and then alter the gradient to say 8% for a while and then back again.
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