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Originally Posted by BlueSky  The reason I have seen for doing strength work first is that it gets your body into fat burning mode before you start the cardio. It is supposed to help you lose weight. And for a T1 diabetic, blood sugar doesn't drop as quickly during the cardio exercise. |
That's how I understood things, but the article I linked above says:
Burn more fat. Now this one really sounds attractive, the idea being that if you deplete some carbohydrate stores, particularly blood glucose, with an initial weights session, you'll be in fat burning mode. Theoretically this makes some sense but as we saw in my article, So You Want to Burn More Fat, the fat burning zone is a mythical construct and what really matters is how much energy you expend overall.
And goes on to link to:
Burn more fat
and New research
Not sure yet what to make of all this - but it is interesting!
