Early morning jogging

[Candyfloss]

How many people do early morning cardio as part of their routine?

I'm trying to shift fat, is it worth adding these into my routine?

I usually do cardio, and my weights in the evening, currently about 5 times a week, plus do 60 second sprint intervals on an old airport runway on my days off!

[precisou2004]

Im finishing my 3rd week of doing spinnning at home as soon as I get up in the morning, 4:45 - 5am, 5x a week and I LOVE IT !!! It's to the point that I can't wait to get up and do a good 30-45 min of it. It's not always a hard spin session but I like to sweat and its great. I basically do intervals and such to keep me going.

[zakkala]

It's odd - I can do any amount of elliptical before breakfast without a problem, but I could never manage to run before eating. Tried it a few times and felt absolutely hideous - had to turn back for home before I'd got a mile out of the way! Maybe it's because all my running routes start up hill!

Anyway - loved doing elliptical before breakfast; woke me up fr the day and got it out of the way.

[monkey21]

Originally Posted by Candyfloss

How many people do early morning cardio as part of their routine?

I'm trying to shift fat, is it worth adding these into my routine?

I usually do cardio, and my weights in the evening, currently about 5 times a week, plus do 60 second sprint intervals on an old airport runway on my days off!

monkey does couple times a week in the morning is best.i do weight training at night so get the best of both if you want to get the best results on the science side train weights first in ya session then cardio after because weights get the fat cells ready to burn baby burn!then its cardio after its a fact!.

[nunu713]

I love doing cardio in the morning. It gets me going for the rest of the day. I used to get up every morning and go for a mile swim - I really enjoyed that, but now I belong to a gym that doesn't have a pool.

I do my entire workout in the mornings - weights first, then about a half hour of steady state cardio. Feels great!

[therock6000]

absolutley...at least 3 miles every morning (except leg day)...gets it out of the way so i can focus only on strength training in the evenings

[Twerp]

Try throwing in some punctuation in there next time....
The point of doing cardio after a workout is not because weight training gets fat cells ready to burn and then cardio burns the fat, it's because weight training is substantially more effective for fat loss (elevated metabolism for a prolonged period of time), so it would be counter productive to tire yourself out by doing cardio prior to your weight training.

Originally Posted by monkey21

monkey does couple times a week in the morning is best.i do weight training at night so get the best of both if you want to get the best results on the science side train weights first in ya session then cardio after because weights get the fat cells ready to burn baby burn!then its cardio after its a fact!.

So you train with weights and do cardio 5 times a week, plus intervals on your days off? I don't think you need to add any cardio to your program at all, I would just restructure your days a little.

oh, and there's nothing wrong with morning cardio, and it doesn't have to be fasted - it's your preference. What I would recommend trying is to swap out two SS Cardio sessions during the week with interval sessions (can be done at different times, just be sure to do weights first) and then do lower intensity SS Cardio sessions on your days off.

If from there you don't see results, I'd suggest the issue is diet....not that you have much fat to lose.....