How to find time for cardio before and after strength training?

Dear readers, we have repeatedly drawn your attention to the importance of cardio introduction and aerobic cool-down. In our opinion, these are mandatory parts of any training process in bodybuilding and fitness, ignoring which is not just bad, but even dangerous for your health! If you constantly work in the gym with extreme and extreme weights and at the same time completely ignore cardio, you will be in trouble, trust the experience of our experts...

The thing is that our heart and respiratory system lag behind muscle progression in development, and, therefore, also need regular training. And they can only be trained and hardened by an aerobic type of exposure. Therefore, make it a habit to start each workout with a 15-minute jog on the track, or pedal on a bicycle ergometer, well, if you like the Orbitrek, use it. You need to do approximately the same thing at the end of your strength training, stretching the barbells and dumbbells.

But here’s the question: yes, all this is necessary, but often you don’t want to waste your precious time on these little things. After all, when we come to the gym, we first of all think about how we will now lie down on the bench and, in five approaches, squeeze a hundredweight barbell from our chest, according to our training plan. And here you have to spend a whole 15 minutes doing monotonous aerobics... This is basically what most bodybuilders think, and, wanting to quickly pull the iron, they forget or “forget” about the aerobic introduction. And very much in vain! Then they are faced with chronic heart disease, high blood pressure, and other “delights of life”, from which, in the end, they may no longer have any time for body building. There is no time for the beauty of the body when health is completely undermined...

– I have one piece of advice – a good old bicycle! ABOUT! It worked out to rhyme! Yes Yes! The bike will help us with this...

I’ll tell you what I personally do (a fitness trainer with many years of experience): I ride a bicycle to the gym. Well, and accordingly the same goes back. Look: we kill three birds with one stone:

1. And we quickly get to the gym without wasting extra time in public transport and traffic jams.
2. And aerobic warm-up and cool-down - always count. By the time you get to the fitness club, you will warm up to the fullest.
3. And aerobic training in nature and fresh air, and not in a stuffy, unventilated room.
4. Well, when you arrive at the gym, you can immediately begin the “mandatory program” of strength training - you’ve already pumped up your cardio, which means that now nothing is holding you back in front of the good old barbell.

In fact, it wasn’t even three birds with one stone, but four. If you dig deeper, I think there could be even more. Here's the recipe. Well, what about those who don’t have a bicycle? – as an option, jogging! Why not? Running is also a type of aerobic training. Well, or as an option, race walking...

In a word, I recommend that you get to the fitness center or your gym not by car or by public transport - and you will be happy. So to speak, combine business with pleasure!

This is some useful advice! Take it easy, new bodybuilder. We will not give bad advice!