When To Do Cardio

When To Do Cardio

Hello everybody. This is Dr. Aaron Seaton with The Chiropractic Place. Today's video is about when to do cardio.

Now cardio training is very important, right? We know all the benefits of doing cardio, reducing our risk of cardiovascular-related diseases. It does help us burn calories. So there's a number of benefits to doing our cardiovascular training, but I like to have people do kind of a combination of weightlifting and cardio and the idea is when do we want to be doing that cardio to get the maximum benefit of our entire workout? So if you are doing some weight training and you incorporate cardio into your routine, what I would recommend doing is starting with doing your weight training first.

Now what that does is it allows the stored sugars in the muscle called glycogen to be used for your weightlifting to maximize your performance. And then after your workout, after you've done the weights is a really good time to be doing your cardio because you've burned up all that stored energy. You're more likely to be burning fat, body fat, as you train and do that cardiovascular routine.

So that'll help you lose weight if that's your goal or also just kind of keep you fit. Now ideally you would do your weights and your cardio at completely separate times during the day. That's if you live in this ideal world where you have all this time and you can just magically work out and then work out later.

Most of us don't have that time. I don't have the ability to do that. So I myself do my cardio training after I do my weight training.

But if you have the ability to do that, that is the best way to maximize the benefit of both the weightlifting and the cardio. But if you have to do them together because you only have one time of day that you can get to the gym like the rest of us, doing that cardio after you've done your weight routine is ideal. So the benefits of cardio, we know we get better stamina, right? You'll actually be able to lift better because your body can recuperate better from the cardiovascular training.

And the huge big thing here, the decreased risks of all cardiovascular-related illnesses when we are doing cardiovascular training cannot be understated. Cardiovascular disease still being the number one killer of everyone in the United States. So it's important if we incorporate this kind of cardiovascular training that we are getting that huge benefit of reducing our overall risks with cardiovascular problems.

I'm Dr. Aaron Seaton with The Chiropractic Place.

 

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