Ok people, if you are doing a hard core cardio program before your weights, you are doing your muscles a dis-service. Ideally, you should do your big cardio days on your day off from weight training. You are depleting your energy levels when you do your cardio first and your muscles are then not performing at their best.
You should warm-up between 10 to 20 minutes before you start your weight program and you can use any type of cardio equipment for the warm-up. This will properly warm-up your muscles, ligaments and tendons to help prevent injury.
I know you are saying to yourself that you do not have time to fit everything into your day and I you have to do everything when you are at the gym. Well, I am a believer that you have time for anything you want to do in your day, you just have to prioritize and that will be another blog from me. If you do not have a plan for your workouts, I highly recommend hiring a personal trainer and I feel the best in the industry are at Fitness Together, www.fitnesstogether.com. The trainer will take your goals and put together a workout program for you that will incorporate weight, cardio and yes wait for it, NUTRITION! Your program will change every 6 to 8 weeks to keep the body progressing towards your goals.
I wish you the best of luck with your health and wellness goals and remember you need to write down your goals first in order to accomplish those goals.
Make it a great day and this marks my first blog! One of my goals accomplished!