Should Women Do Cardio First?
I work out at Anytime Fitness.
One of the more interesting things I see is that about 90% of the college-aged women I see will begin with about thirty minutes of cardio (including steady-state or interval training).
Afterwards they might do some strength training, usually core work and maybe some direct arm work like curls or triceps extensions. I’m guessing that their goal is to lose fat or to tone up.
Given the enlightened information in women’s publications — “Women’s Health,” “Oxygen,” and “Self” — I would have expected most women to have switched to doing strength training first. I suspect the problem is a thing called tradition. Women, like men, tend to do what other women (or men) do.
Why should a person do strength training first?
When you start with strength training you help to mobilize fat around the body to be released.
Strength training also helps to build or at least maintain muscle mass. The research is filled with studies showing cardio-only exercise results in decreased muscle mass and thus leads to decreased metabolism.
Also, cardio done after strength training is beneficial because aerobic work helps burn the fat which was released by strength training. There are other benefits to doing strength training first, but these considerations are some of the most important for fat loss.
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