hey my name is Erin and I'm a former US
Junior Olympic certified swim coach and
personal trainer and fitness is my
passion so I cannot wait to share it
with you guys all right so a question
that I often get asked is what is the
difference between cardio and
strength-training which is better and
how do I incorporate both so it's not
really an easy way to answer that
question but the difference between
cardio and strength-training is that one
is aerobic which is cardio and one is
anaerobic during aerobic exercise the
body draws on glycogen and/or fat for
energy during an aerobic exercise the
body cannot draw easily on fat stores
the mistake that people often make is
that they'll do their cardio workouts
before their strength training workouts
now if you think about it from a common
sense perspective why is that bad well
if you exhaust your legs by running or
on the elliptical or whatever and then
you try and go lift heavy weights or do
squats or you know any sort of
weight-bearing activities you're already
going to be fatigued from doing your
cardio first okay that's it of course
you should always warm up but you only
need five to ten minutes now if you do
your cardio after your strength training
workout the body is depleting its
glycogen stores so it's drawing on
glycogen because it can't draw on to fat
okay great you power through your
strength training an aerobic workout now
you move on to your cardio well what's
going to happen is because you've
hopefully depleted your glycogen stores
when you're doing your anaerobic workout
when you go to do your aerobic workout
the body goes hmm let me go to the fat
stores for energy ideally in the best
case scenario that's what's gonna happen
during your anaerobic strength training
routine if you're working on a specific
muscle group or a specific body area
like they are working on your lower body
they're doing some heavier life work and
there's weights involved your legs are
tired after that strength training
workout for your cardio following that
if you're going to do cardio con that
you don't want to go do you know
high-intensity interval spreads because
your legs are already tired and that can
increase your risk of innis of injury
ideally you know you want to separate
the cardio that you do you don't want it
to be focused on the same body parts
that you just worked during your
strength training workout if you're
going to do those two things
back-to-back you're working on your
upper body
don't go sit on the rowing machine right
afterwards because your upper bodies
aren't you tired so just use common
sense that's a little tip aerobic
activity isn't just for burning fat
there are different types of cardio that
you can use you can do high intensity
intervals for fat burning you can do you
know long length of long bouts of
running if you're a marathon or
half-marathon runner a lot of people do
that you know that's not something
that's necessarily for fat burning or
muscle toning but that's more to
increase your stamina
it's an endurance exercise so there's
different types of cardio that you can
do there's high impact cardio which
would be running and then there's low
impact cardio which would be something
like swimming which is safe for anyone
and great for rehabbing or you have an
injury so lots of different types of
cardio to do obviously on our other
videos lots of different types of
strength training that you can do do
strength training or to increase muscle
mass and to do strength training to burn
fat you can do strength training just to
get stronger and more fit so you know
there's no one reason to do any of those
things
um and that's the beauty of it you need
both cardio and strength training to
round out your fitness routines one is
not better than the other they're just
different your body responds differently
and you need them both so get to work