211: Does a Cardio Warm-Up Before Weights Influence Muscle Soreness?

With the increased popularity of weight training it seems many resistance training athletes are arriving at the gym and training immediately and neglecting traditional low intensity cardio before and after the weights as warm up and cool down. Is this OK or is it more optimal to warm[up and cool down? Today’s research study looks at this issue and leads to a discussion half of the episode all about weighting of time to training vs. pre and post-training routines and what may be some perks of particular strategies. John always reviews the full-text of each study review on the show, but to see the abstract please go to: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23486850

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