Doing cardio before lifting weights

>doing cardio before lifting weights

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doing high intensity cardio before hitting the weights it is indeed bad, this is because your body is driving blood to the organs that needs it the most, in this case the lungs for example, so trying to force the blood into the muscle you are working becomes inefficient, however it is a good thing to do very light cardio, just to promote the bloodflow in the body, this will help to drive the blood to the desired muscle group more effectibly, you drive the blood then by doing various warm up sets before doing your working sets, with the warm up set you will already hit a pump, so by the time you do your working set you're already at your strongest for the sessions, then after your workouts, you have to stretch, if you do cardio, wich you should, to get a good effect that doesn't get in the way of your lifting, you should do hitt on a separate session and lastly at home, to promote faster recovery, you should do a ligth cardio and calisthenics routine, nothing to intense just to promote bloodflow.

Ok, so they say don't do heavy cardio before lifting, and they also say rest on your day between lifting workouts... so when should you so heavy cardio?

{Lift - rest - cardio : ?

you have various options, you can do cardio after your lifting, or do it later in the day, or do it on your rest day, 10 min of hiit workouts are not enough to get you to the point of exaustation, also cardio is going to increase the speed of your recovery

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Usually my cardio isn't high intensity, but it's 30-40 minutes of cycling. At the lower bound of heart thumping, but not heaving breath or exhaustion by any rate. Is that still ok for rest day?

yes, as long as its not too intense or gets you to the point of fatigue is fine, however you should add atleast 2 day where you do hiit cardio for about 10 mins, you can do it after your lifting, and on rest days that type of cardio is good for promoting recovery,

i love cardio, I hate lifting

I wish it was the opposite.

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