Should Cardio Come Before or After Weights?
You arrive at the gym and find yourself at a familiar crossroads: Turn this way for the weight room, or that way for the cardio deck. You planned to do both—but which should you do first? Does it even matter? Spoiler alert: Not really. Generally speaking, that is.
“The simple answer is it probably doesn’t matter,” says Luke Carlson, founder and CEO of Discover Strength. “There might be some mechanistic rationale for why it should matter. But, in the studies, we just don’t ever see it matter.”
“It’s mostly a matter of preference,” says Alex Rothstein, EdD, MS, CSCS, exercise physiologist and coordinator of the Exercise Science program at New York Institute of Technology. “There’s such a minimal difference that I wouldn’t argue one versus the other is better.”
Excerpted from GQ
