Welcome to the Get Fake Guys quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up. My name is Ben

Greenfield. I'm the Get Fit Guy. And in today's episode, you're going to learn the truth about

cardio before weights or weights before cardio, especially when it comes to fat loss. Now, it's been over a year since I published the episode,

What's Best for Fat Loss, Cardio before weights or weights before cardio.

And I'll link to that particular episode.

If you go to the show notes over at quick and dirty tips.com,

it's episode number 261 that you want to look for.

But recently, a brand new study emerged, and it looked into this very question again

and came to some pretty interesting conclusions you should know about if you want to lose fat,

but you're not quite sure how to ideally mix cardiovascular aerobic training and weightlifting.

Now, for many years, cardio has been known to benefit your health

and fitness because aerobic exercise increases the density of very important cardiovascular

components like tiny blood-carrying capillaries and also builds your cells, energy-producing

mitochondria, assists with healthy cholesterol levels, increases blood vessel flexibility,

helps with fat loss, and more.

On the other hand, resistance training, aka weight training, has also been shown to have a

significant impact on cholesterol level, strength, lean body mass, and fat loss.

So if your goal is fat loss, along with full body fitness, it's clear that it can certainly help to do a combination of both cardio and resistance training.

But the question is, which should you do first?

Wights before cardio or cardio before weights.

Well, last year, a study in the Journal of Strength Conditioning Research looked into whether the order of resistance training and endurance exercise during a workout actually affects fat loss. This study investigated

the effects of the order of exercise on things like strength, VO2 max, body weight, body fat

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