{"id":1216,"date":"2009-11-25T11:59:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T16:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eastpointe.wpengine.com\/cardio-and-muscle-growth\/"},"modified":"2023-10-13T16:20:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T20:20:07","slug":"cardio-and-muscle-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/cardio-and-muscle-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardio and Muscle Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hs-migrated-cms-post\">\n<p>Phil DiBenedetto asked: <b>Is it true that too much cardio may actually hinder the goal of muscle growth? And is cardio best done before or after weight training?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are some studies that claim to have found that but generally they are very extreme amounts of cardio and not what people with a good balanced routine would come close to doing. Runners training for marathons and running dozens of miles per day might have a hard time building muscle, but anything up to 20 miles or so a week should not be a problem. I would say the cardio before or after question is more of a personal preference&#8230; on one hand it is a good way to warm up&#8230; but on the other hand you don&#8217;t want to tire yourself out before you do your strength training. One recommendation would be to do a cardio warm up before working out, but limit that to 20 or 30 minutes max to save your strength for your strength training. If you plan to run a longer distance, then just do a quick cardio warm up and save the long run for after you complete your strength training. Hope that helps. Are you coming in tonight Phil?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil DiBenedetto asked: Is it true that too much cardio may actually hinder the goal of muscle growth? And is cardio best done before or after weight training?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 20:40:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}