Ways To Loose Weight Fast

Fat Loss & Cardio Training – Should I Do Cardio Training Before Or After My Weight Training For Best Results?

"To maximize my fat loss, should I do my cardio training before or after my weight training?" This is one of the most frequently-asked questions when it comes to lose fat.

If maximizing your fat loss is your ultimate goal and you want to incorporate cardio training into your training schedule, you’re better off doing your cardio training immediately after your weight training (physiologically speaking).

This is the reason:

1. When you start with the weight training first, you have a lot more energy and strength for this workout.

A lot off cardio junkies won’t want to hear this. Quality weight training is actually more effective for fat loss than a cardio workout. Why the emphasis on quality? Well, if you go to the gym and just train with light weights for 30 minutes, it’s not really going to be very effective for fat loss.

But if you really put a lot off effort into it and train very hard, the metabolic boost you get from weight training is greater than the boost you get from a cardio workout. When compared to slow, long-duration cardio training, that boost is much greater.

So by starting with your weight training first, you’re going to have more energy to put into it and you’re going to be much stronger. This will increase your metabolic and muscle mass stimulation and therefore overall bodyfat loss. It’s a win-win situation for your body!

You can start with a couple of minutes of cardio warm-up before starting your the weight training. So don’t do an entire cardio workout before starting weight training. Rember, weight training is the real engine behind your fat loss efforts.

I’ve got another reason for you!

2. Start with weight training first decreases available blood sugar and puts your body in the "fat burning" mode.

Training with weights means you’re performing short, intense muscle contractions. Glucose (blood sugar) is the preferred fuel for driving these intense contractions. As you go through your workout, your body gradually uses up its readily-available supply of sugars and starts mobilizing fat for energy.

Mobilizing bodyfat for energy is a process that takes time. When you do your cardio first, your body will be initially working on that blood sugar before getting started on the bodyfat. By the time you’re done with your cardio workout and move to weights, that is when you’re in the maximum fat-burning mode.

IMPORTANT!  Fat is not an efficient fuel for weight training. By doing cardio first, you use up all the "good" stuff for weight training and force your body to make do with a less powerful fuel source. Your weight training workouts will decrease in quality and your cardio workouts won’t be as effective for achieving fat-burning, which is your primary goal!

A methaphor, think of your body as a hybrid gas-electric car. This car uses gas to provide more power and strength for acceleration and electricity to provide long-term power for maintaining speed. Now think of blood sugar as gas and weight training as powerful acceleration. When you press the pedal (performing weight training), you’re going to get much better acceleration when you’re using the proper fuel (i.e. gas). If you try and power the acceleration with electricity, you’ll go forward but not nearly as quickly as if you were using gas.

This is your lesson: Perform your weight training first so you use up the "fast" energy first. Then, by the time you hit the cardio, you’re already in the fat-burning mode and every single second you’re doing that cardio is going to be burning more fat than if you did it first.

The key thing to keep in mind is that WEIGHT TRAINING is what’s going to help you to lose body fat FAST. Cardio training is a useful tool for improving your results but it’s not what drives your fat-loss results. 

Resume, if you’re looking for maximum results for the time and effort you’re putting in your training, start with weight training first and cardio training after.

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