running and working out?

Question

is running after lifting weights of any benefit? or does it take away from my workout?

Answer 1

Of course, any exercise is beneficial for a good health and to keep fit:
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Answer 2

Running after lifting weights is dangerous. You should do the eopposite if you are going to lift weights. If you make certain muscles very tired before running, those muscles may be support muscles for running and therefore you may get injured. I always lift after i run if i lift at all.

Answer 3

lift weights first and run last.
reason being is that while you lift weights you use up your main source of energy and by the time you get to the running you are going off your stored fat which in turn results in more productive weight loss.

Answer 4

Running will create a great endurance, while working will add muscle tone and strength. These both are in fact each other's opposites and are hard to combine. Great muscle mass will lead to slower speed and great endurance will burn fat and muscle mass and lower strength. This will only occur if you plan to become exceptional in one of these both (great runner or bodybuilder/powerlifter). Note that Arnold Schwarzenegger is also a slow runner.

Excessive runnning and fat burning might even lead to loss of muscle mass. When the body does not find enough fat to burn, it will burn muscle mass (if low fat percentage). Another possibility is that the body burns fat while running. Muscle mass, as any other organ or part of the body, consumes energy in order to sustain. It consumes fat directly from the body, in opposition to our organs, which consume energy from food. For this reason, excessive running might eventually burn fat, which is essential to maintain muscle mass (once again, if you have a low fat percentage, it could consume muscle mass).

Both strength/muscle and endurance training are however combinable, but it is difficult, as they are each other's opposites. Even further having great strength is not the same as having great muscle mass (they require different workouts). One who both has great endurance and great strength/muscle mass will not be able to have as much endurance or as much muscle mass as a person who focuses just at one point of these both.

Answer 5

I think that the order you do your training doesn't matter, as long as you run and lift weights you are in perfect shape and healthy.

Answer 6

it depends on how much you run and what you are trying to achieve. if you are trying to build and get bigger you don't want to run long distances. 2 miles or less. but aerobic excersice is important. it is better to run after a workout than before.