One question that many people find themselves asking as they go about their fat burning workouts is whether or not they should be doing their cardio before or after their strength training session. Some people feel that it’s best to get cardio out of the way first and then move to weights as then it serves as a great warm-up.
Others, however, see things differently and think weights should come first when creating your fat burning workouts.
What’s the correct answer here? Which order should you really be doing your workout sessions in? Let’s
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If you lift weights, you do a certain number of reps of each exercise. Most of the time, you do between 8-16 reps, depending on your goals but, if you’re new to strength training, you may have no idea how many reps you should be doing. I had a client ask me about this the other day, wondering why I always had her doing 12 reps. Obviously, it amuses me to force other people to lift weights repeatedly but, beyond that there is a good reason for that.
8-16 reps isn’t just an arbitrary number. That rep range is based on percentages of , which is the amount of weight you could lift just one time for any given exercise.
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Strength Training is Good For Kids!
It’s official! After many long years of arguing with fools, I am validated! Based on hundreds of studies and thousands of hours of research, the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) have finally taken the position that age-appropriate resistance training is not only good for kids, but recommended.
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Children under the ages of 11 in girls and 13 in boys used to be discouraged from participating in resistance exercise, for a variety of reasons, none of which I will get into here because none have any merit. B
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