Welcome to the Get Fit Guys, quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

In today's episode, you're going to learn what's best for fat loss.

Cardio before weights or weights before cardio.

Well, for many years, aerobic endurance exercise has been

known to benefit your health and fitness because it can increase the density of important

cardiovascular components like tiny blood-carrying capillaries and your cells powerhouse mitochondria,

assist with healthy cholesterol levels, increased blood vessel flexibility,

and help with fat loss. But resistance training, aka weight training, has also been recognized

as having a significant impact on cholesterol, your strength, your lean body mass, and just like

endurance exercise, an increase in fat loss. So when you step into a gym

with the goal of fat loss, it is clear that it can certainly help to do a combination of both

endurance and resistance training. And this has been proven. But the question is, which should you do

first? Strength before cardio or cardio before strength. Okay, so let's delve into

this whole strength before cardio or cardio before strength thing. A recent study in the journal of

Strength and conditioning research looked into whether the order of resistance training and

endurance exercise during a workout actually affects fat loss.

The study was called the effects of combined resistance training and endurance exercise

in college female subjects. Does order matter? And it looked into just that, investigating

the effects of the order of exercise on strength, V-O-2 max, body weight,

body fat percentage, and lean body mass over an eight-week exercise program. And I'll link to this

study in the show notes if you care to check it out. It's at quick and dirty tips.com.

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