Exercising after weightlifting

[Juanco20]

If you were to do a chest/triceps workout for example at 3.00pm, is there any negative effect by then playing football a few hours later. I thought I'd read somewhere that there was but I can't think why this might be

Also, when they say to have a days rest between working muscle groups, does this mean any exercise or just weightlifting? For example, if you had done legs yesterday and were going to do them tomorrow, is playing football going to have a negative impact due to lack of rest or is getting the legs moving actually helping. This isn't intense football either, just 60 mins kick around with mates

Probably over thinking it but just curious

[balders118]

Doing a chest workout at 3pm, and then doing cardio based exercise a few hours later is fine. The only possible negative is that you're giving your body more to recover from, so it might take slightly longer foto recover, but really this isn't going to be noticable.

Doing a leg workout, followed by football a few hours later is a bit different as you are training the same muscle groups all over again, with very little rest. If you really want to get the most out of your weight training, I'd try to avoid doing this - not in the least because your football ability wil no doubt be negatively effected.

[Squirrelofwoe]

I have a similar 60-90 minute kickaround on thursday nights. For this reason I make thursdays my cardio day, we go to the gym about 5pm and do 30-45mins of cardio (mix of treadmill & rowing), followed by 30mins swimming. Then home for an hour or so rest before football.

Then have Fridays off completely, and back to weights on Saturday mornings. Seems to work well.

Regarding the football, if you have always played quite regularly it shouldn't have much effect. However the first couple of times playing after being out for a while (for me with injuries!) always seem to kill the leg muscles for a couple of days regardless!

[OllyK]

Not sure about later in the day, but i've read/heard (Ordinary Chap probably...) that cardio directly after lifting is very good for fat loss, as the lifting has already used up the glucose in your body, so you start to burn more fat.

As said above though, doing a leg workout before Football wouldn't be particularly useful for recovery.

[Ordinary_Chap]

OllyK said:

Not sure about later in the day, but i've read/heard (Ordinary Chap probably...) that cardio directly after lifting is very good for fat loss, as the lifting has already used up the glucose in your body, so you start to burn more fat.

As said above though, doing a leg workout before Football wouldn't be particularly useful for recovery.

On on demand! dada!

http://www.ergo-log.com/cardioafterweighttraining....

There's tons of scientific research to show its benefits although the research I suggested was about doing cardio immediately after weights.

I don't see any harm in it other than it takes away an opportunity for your body to grow. It depends on how fast you want to progress at lifting/gaining muscle etc...

[Hoofy]

Go in goal?

[Ordinary_Chap]

Hoofy said:

Go in goal?

Or play like me and sit on the bench!

[Juanco20]

Probably didn't word the original post very well

Sunday: Legs
Monday : Chest/Triceps, football
Tuesday: Legs

So it wasn't football the same day as legs, it was inbetween. There is a reason for me doing a lot of leg work incase anyone thought twice in three days was overkill

Not noticed any issues today anyway. Flexibility is at an all time high after a couple of months of regular foam rolling and stretching which is probably helping as normally i'd be stiff as anything after playing football