How to structure your daily cardiovascular exercises

Wondering what the best time of day is to do cardio? If you were hoping for a one-size-fits-all answer to this long-standing and highly debated question, you’re out of luck. You see, there is no magical, universal time of the day for cardio. But there are optimal times based on your individual lifestyle.

Lots of people do their cardio before their weight workout, lots do it after, and some even do it right smack in the middle. No matter when you get your cardio in, everybody should be doing it at least a few times a week.

Even if your only goal in life is to be huge, and you're terrified of burning calories, you still should be doing some form of aerobic exercise. There are so many reasons to do cardio, besides just burning calories—a stronger heart and lungs will equate to a stronger body, a bigger pump, and greater fitness overall!

Of course, the biggest problem for most people isn't figuring out why to do cardio, but figuring out when to do it!

So the question arises: Cardio before or after weights, which one's better?

Well ideally, if you've enough time from your daily schedule for your workout routine then the best would be to separate your cardio and resistance training session i.e. cardio in morning and resistance training in evening. The reason being that due to prolonged absence of food during your night sleep there is reduction in circulating the blood sugar which directly causes the glycogen(stored carbohydrates) level in your body to decrease. So what exactly will happen is during the morning cardio exercise due to low glycogen level your body will rely on your body fat for the fuel which is to be used in the exercises and hence causes your body fat to decrease. 

And for your evening resistance training your body will consume or store enough amount of  glycogen which will be beneficial for your training.

But if you've only a limited amount of time from your daily schedule for your workout then the best would be to perform the resistance training first and then the cardio session after it. 

It is because if you consider doing your cardio first then your body will consume most of the energy by using the glycogen as the fuel which tends to decrease the level of glycogen. As it is known that for resistance training our body needs glycogen as fuel for the energy, so decrease in that fuel will affect the results of resistance training. 

So by training your muscles first, you can enjoy your great pump. Then you can continue with the cardiovascular training as it can also use your body fat as the source of energy. So you do not need to worry for the energy to be used in the cardio session. 

So I hope this would help you....
Well enjoy your workout !!...