Should I take a Shake post lift, or post Lift and Cardio?

[Dukkit]

I'm really not sure. It seems you run your cardio right AFTER your wo? I usually do my wo in the early morning, and my cardio at lunch and again at night. My thinking is that waiting for cardio allows my body to fully recover, fully reabsorb any protein lost, and allow the blood to saturate those areas just worked, without having to move on to satisfy the demands of cardio. I just assumed that the cardio would interfere with the pwo recovery. If my understanding is correct, that you are doing your cardio right after your wo, does this improve growth, or is it this is the only time of day you can squeeze it in?

eh, not the best reasoning there

reason most do cardio after lifting is your glycogen levels are lowered after a good workout session. then when you do cardio your body has less glycogen to burn off before it starts to use fat deposits for fuel

so you burn more fat.

if you go at lunch and later in the day then all the food youve eaten all day has to be used up first.

your wasting time and energy

so fasted cardio right when you wake up and pwo cardio are best options for when to do cardio

[Times Roman]

eh, not the best reasoning there

reason most do cardio after lifting is your glycogen levels are lowered after a good workout session. then when you do cardio your body has less glycogen to burn off before it starts to use fat deposits for fuel

so you burn more fat.

if you go at lunch and later in the day then all the food youve eaten all day has to be used up first.

your wasting time and energy

so fasted cardio right when you wake up and pwo cardio are best options for when to do cardio

no sh1t? learn something new every day. thanks for the 411. I'm starting to think of the fasted cardio when I first wake up. Then I can eat, shower, then wo. Time between cardio and wo in this scenerio would be something like 60 to 90 minutes.

[Dukkit]

no sh1t? learn something new every day. thanks for the 411

lol

anytime bro

[danimal79]

eh, not the best reasoning there

reason most do cardio after lifting is your glycogen levels are lowered after a good workout session. then when you do cardio your body has less glycogen to burn off before it starts to use fat deposits for fuel

so you burn more fat.

100%. no argument there. but imo, proper nutrition and weight-training are the most important things to bodybuilding - cardio is like extra credit. when someone does their cardio and weights back-to-back, it's not possible to structure the workouts and nutrition according to what's optimal for each of them. so if ANYTHING had to be less than optimal, i'd choose it to be the nutrition surrounding my cardio session - not the weights. i'd never want to put-off my post-workout nutrition in the name of cardio. plus i want to be fresh when i hit the weights. not fatigued (even slightly) from cardio. that's why i believe that the two just don't mix. do 'em separately.