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An exceprt from my London Personal Training Group Q&As -
Q) I read somewhere that for fat burning it should be done after weights. As all your glycogen stores are exhausted and the body should start to use it's own fat as fuel to carry on. Is this true?
A) Do your weights when you are fresh and then finish with cardio.
And don't waste your time jogging (unless you enjoy jogging!), instead maximise time and results by doing some form of high intensity interval training.
You could sit of the rowing machine and blast out 200metre sprints followed by 30-60 second rests. Do that for 10 sets and trust me you will get fit and burn fat. Or you could just sprint then jog....really its whatever gets your heart rate right up there in the stratosphere.
Too many people, especially women, have an aversion to NOT doing excessive cardio, and this is so wrong. They look at the world of exercise physiology through a straw and focus only on what happens during exercise, rather than what happens AFTERWARDS. Training in the way I described above will burn 3 times the calories of traditional (what we call "steady state") cardio, as well as preserving / building muscle tone.
 | Author: | london personal trainer (london personal trainer's profile, london personal trainer's blog) |
 | Posted On: | Wed, 2008-04-02 17:00 |
 | Tags: | bodybuilding, coaching, diet, exercise, fitness, training, women and weight training |
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