[lovevixen]

I have done it both ways my take on it is this. use the glyogen for hoisting heavy weight not spinning your wheels on a cardio machine. If you lift heavy first your glycogen stores will be depleted before you hop on the cardio machine so by effect you will have nothing left but fat to burn unless your liver decides to use some of it's reserves of glycogen.

On the other hand if you do your cardio first you can not lift any where near as heavy or for as many sets so unless you desire to be better at cardio then you are lifting heavy iron it does not make much sense.

I do not benifit much from warming up first what is the point of doing cardio to warm up if you are still going to do a warm up set on your first exercise? I should add that I have been lifting weights since 1982 and the only time I have been hurt lifting weights is when a candy wrapper some one pitched got stuck tot he bottom of my shoe and I slipped while squatting. I tried to save the lift and ended up with a compression injury to my spine. That was back in 1988. I think the fact that I do not waste time with more then one warm up set and I stop before I am so fatigued that my form breaks down is the reason I have never suffered an injury. Most bodybuilders get hurt once they are fatigued and often when trying to go to failure late in the workout.....So I am against anything that makes you fatigued prior to hoisting heavy iron. Save the cardio for after the heavy lifting almost no one get's hurt doing cardio because the load is light and the worst thing that could happen to you is you fall of the machine!


Plus to doing cardio after a workout is that it flush's all the junk out of the muscles and reduces sorness!