How Do You Work Out?

How do you work out?
I have always done a warm up for a few minutes, then some form of cardio (I don’t always do cardio separately, sometimes I combine it with strength training) and once I’ve done my cardio I move on to what ever strength training I am doing.

Apparently, I have been doing it all wrong .
according to daily muscle - This is the better method - Warm up for 5-10 minutes
then strength training followed by cardio, and all ended nicely by stretching.
The reason:

Because strength training uses glycogen as a fuel source (stored carbohydrates in your muscles). By weight training first, we are going to use up most of the glycogen in our muscles, so there’s a greater tendency for our cardio workout to use up fat as a fuel source. So, if we were to do cardio first, we might not be able to lift as much weights, therefore compromising our workout to a certain extent.

Good to know!

But, one should keep in mind that the most important thing is to workout, and in whatever order we decide we want to do it, it will keep us happy and healthy…

I did a post a while back on the difference between the western way of thinking about fitness and the eastern way.
Us westerners think bigger faster more beautiful, while the eastern cultures think healthy and fit.

We break things down - we don’t just exercise  as a whole experience but break it down into segments, in western medicine - it is pretty much the same, your doctor will treat every symptom separately, your leg your back your headache where as in Eastern medicine the philosophy is holistic - body and soul.

Maybe there is something to be learned from this… work out to keep your body healthy, your spirits up and your mind sharp - the rest will follow…