Exercising is a lifestyle for many people who care about their health and want to be fit. Some people love working out and being active all the time, others make the sacrifice to do so but what counts at the end is that they are all taking care of their organism and that is simply all that matters. Many of these people wonder whether if it is good to combine the strength workout with the Cardio one since they either alternate them or do them the same day. The question here would be: Is it better to mix both exercises or to take specific days for each other?
The answer is pretty easy I think. For example, you go and play basketball with your friends and just after it you go to your football practice. Will you play football with the same energy you had when you where playing basketball? Answer is no. Same happens with weight lifting and cardio exercises; you will have less energy on the second one and will lose important exercise. I would definitely say that it is better to alternate workouts and fully concentrate on each of them than to do one the right way and not the other; if you know what I mean; however it is not wrong to complete your strength workout and do some cardio after it just to burn a few more calories.
It is important to know how to exercise in a proportional way so that you look good and fit, if you are working out in a gym ask a trainer to teach you how to use each of the gym machines and get some recommendations, after all they are the experts.
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It would have been better to post this in the Training forum.
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Moved to Training.
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What was that? An assignment for 10 year old PE class?
The important take home message is that any non specific exercise will require recovery and is time you can't spend riding the bike. Weight training if done properly can take anywhere from 3-14 days to recover from a session and that is a lot of time to be recovering when you could be building real fitness for what you enjoy or what you intend to perform in.
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fergie said:
What was that? An assignment for 10 year old PE class?
The important take home message is that any non specific exercise will require recovery and is time you can't spend riding the bike. Weight training if done properly can take anywhere from 3-14 days to recover from a session and that is a lot of time to be recovering when you could be building real fitness for what you enjoy or what you intend to perform in.
I'm not sure who you're training who requires 3-14 days to recover from a session. Your trainees are almost certainly novices who can recover in 1-3 days, if you're training properly.
@OP: You emphasize looking good and fit. Aesthetics should be at most a secondary emphasis of training for any serious athlete, outside of bodybuilders.
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Enriss said:
I'm not sure who you're training who requires 3-14 days to recover from a session. Your trainees are almost certainly novices who can recover in 1-3 days, if you're training properly.
Training of World Class Ice Skaters, Track Cyclists and Gymnasts. Some sessions are so intense it takes days before they can lift heavy and powerful again. But then I realised that extra recovery was costing condition and the strength didn't make as big a difference as focused specific training so the gym worked changed to more general conditioning work. When I talked with a Russian Gymnastics coach he looked at me went "well duh".
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It's a troll. Same [censored] posted elsewhere.
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Does the troll have big legs?
If it does it must be a sprinter troll!
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fergie said:
Does the troll have big legs?
If it does it must be a sprinter troll!
Only if it also has good genetics for explosive movement! Quick, someone ask it what its vertical jump is!
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Enriss said:
Only if it also has good genetics for explosive movement! Quick, someone ask it what its vertical jump is!
So it's not just the having big legs. Good to see the penny is dropping.
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fergie said:
So it's not just the having big legs. Good to see the penny is dropping.
Well, some big legs are good for heavy lifting, others are for powerful lifting, some are good for doing high rep work, and others are the body's adaptation to excess donut consumption. Have I ever claimed that people with big legs are better sprinters, or just that there's a good sprinter with big legs?
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