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Doing a short cardio session after weight training probably won’t boost your gains – here’s why

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par Liam T. Pearson-Noseworthy, Distinguished Teaching Fellow, School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation, Northumbria University, Newcastle

Spend long enough on fitness social media and you’ll see the same tip. Finish every weight training session with about 15 minutes of cardio to boost your “gains”. But does it actually work? Probably not as much as you’d think.

Doing cardio and weight training in the same exercise programme is known as “concurrent training”. This includes doing cardio in the same session as your weights, or on separate days.

For years,…

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