Best Time To Do Cardio 

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For optimal cardio, I do it when my life is depleted of joy.

I love fasted cardio. It keeps me energized throughout the day, better mental clarity. It also helps reduce bloating.

Wanted to add that the no excuse, no interruptions, early morning pre-work cardio has been working wonders. Took a little discipline to start, but became habit like it was boot camp again. Good advice. Thank you sir.

Mr Paul your channel have been my go to channel for me past 5 years. As a medical officer myself I'm impressed with your honest no BS knowledge, guidance and input on natural bodybuilding. Keep up the great work 😃😃😃.

Right on point. My motto has always been 'train first'. I'm retired now but I still get up at 5 a.m. to get my daily dose of cardio. Then some breakfast and off to the gym about 2 hours later. And, it feels great! As you said, something will always come up if I plan on a late day session.

Exactly how I do it. Wake up and walk a 5k. Strength training after breakfast and before bed most days 30 mins on the treadmill. Feels good.

I like how you said fit the cardio into your life at the end of the video. I work 13 hour shifts. You say the right things to get people to their goals

I will warm up with 10-15 dynamic stretching and cardio (jumping jacks, knee ups) then spend 45 mins to 1 hr weight training, followed by at most 30 mins cardio. I do my workouts in the evening after I have eaten 3 meals (close to my daily caloric intake) cause I need the extra calories and energy. Then I finish my night with my final meal after my work out knowing that the calories well replenish my workout glycogen and not going towards fat storage. I stopped doing fasted cardio and noticed more strength gain and weight loss following my current method.

Fasted row machine at 5:30am every morning. Loving it. Plus 10 min walk after my 2 meals. And obviously weights 4x/week.

I just started a few weeks ago jumping on the bike first thing in the morning. So far I do like 30 mins and burn about 500 calories and I’m good for the day. By the evening I go to the gym for weight training for about an hour.

I switched to riding my bike to work daily for over a year and only managed to gain weight. 30 minutes a day of bike riding added so much muscle to my legs my pants got tighter, meanwhile my belly went nowhere. I was hungrier all day and probably ate more than I should. It turned into a muscle machine and my fat just stayed. Now I walk for 45 minutes every day, at lunch time, and I've lost 20 pounds in two months. No extra cravings either. I appreciate your videos to help keep it all in perspective. This is great advice.

I get called in to work all the time halfway through the day and never know for sure if I'm going in or not, so getting up at 6 or 7 and having my cardio done before 9 would make it a lot easier to be consistent in my case. That'd take me from going to the gym once or twice a week, to every day.

His smile at the beginning always makes me smile 😅

The same to me. I create 1h for me to do cardio or strengh or yoga at 5 am because I don t have time for me late of the day..

Mr Revelia your channel has become my favorite recently. I enjoy the no BS approach. Simple question for you sir. What is the minimal amount of time to perform steady state cardio and get results regarding brisk pace walking?

I personally like cardio at night - I do not have hunger and it improves sleep

Best in morning while fasting- watch DR Berg- he’s knows and needs a noble prize re health, food and exercise. Everyone is different and depends on age. If I exercise at 8 pm can’t sleep for a while and more energy in the morning. I used to teach cardio classes at lunchtime and that was very evfective

If I do hiit, it has to be fasted or I'll feel sick and kind of lethargic, but I love my peanut powder rice cakes before my strength training. I can walk with a weighted vest at anytime, fed or fasted! Thanks Paul.

Another great no nonsense video 👍 I'm a lunchtime walker. It breaks up the work day and clears up the brain. Seeing other walkers on the trail keeps me motivated. Weights after work just before dinner.

Eating carbs would break a low carb, carnivore diet. I just walk 1 mile in the morning before I eat and walk 2 miles in the evening within 30 minutes after supper. Except when it is raining. Thanks for your informative videos. 😎

I like walking or at least moving after every meal after noticing the digestion benefits.

Great video. I work swing shifts at an Ethanol plant and some times I work 8 days in a row at 12 hour shifts and its hard to get cardio in. I do enjoy the low intensity walking in the morning before I get ready for work and I do this fasted.

Morning is the best - before breakfast and having CV burn 30 mins before cardio and also 3 tablespoons of raw apple cider vinegar all before cardio and then doing 45 mins of fast walking on a threadmill - 6 days a week - worked wonders for me - then shower after cardio and then breakfast like coffee, 4 egg whites and 2 eggs - trust me try it for a month and watch the difference- stay hard!!

I’m 48 and I need help bud! I love your videos! I have a new treadmill and I’m trying to get on it for 30-60 min per day. 4-5 days a week. I will join the challenge. Thanks

Paul has been on fire lately with weight loss videos.

What’s weird for me is that I love working out cardio or resistance in the evening. Just flows with my day better

I like doing low impact cardio first thing in the morning. The dog likes it too........it gets it out of the way early. And if it is a workout day, it means I don't need to tack it on to my gym time. I can use that time to do some HIIT or some type of metcon workout to improve on my overall conditioning. It's also a nice way to start the day. An excuse to watch the sun come up.

Doing my cardio on the treadmill right now!!

These videos are being dripped to me at the perfect times in my cut

I always enjoy your videos. Very straight forward and easy to understand. Thanks Paul!

I was literally on the treadmill last night googling fasted cardio. Perfect timing for this video. Thx Paul!!!

Thank you! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

I do my cardio first thing in the morning, fasted. It’s not about the fuel source though. It’s only because I do it so early. I either run, then walk or I do HIIT. Typically the sessions are relatively short, so performance isn’t impacted by it being fasted.

When I was in better shape, I recall I would get up, go for a light jog, shower, eat breakfast, THEN go to the gym to move inanimate objects. The broscience said "omg, don't do cardio before weight training!" But, I found zero detriment, even to my squats/deadz. Maybe it's the gap between activities, or the nutrition recharge. And, I'd feel more awake, energized. (Doing cardio the day after a leg day, well. THEN I feel it.) My rationalization for fasted cardio is the logic that, overall calories the same, it doesn't matter whether you eat food before or after cardio. Eating after gets me out the door faster.

Excellent video, and this is how I have naturally approached my cardio more as a stress reliever. However, during the winter this is where I have struggled recently

I do fasting cardio and weight training 1st thing on Sunday mornings. I guess I need to get up a little earlier and do it regularly thru the week. Its just that I sometimes have trouble shutting down at bed time even when Ive a long day and feel like Im worn out! 🤔

Neat idea, glad that it's any time is good time.

Just wanted to say thank you. I started using fat secret that you mentioned in a different video. And I dropped 2 pounds in a week.

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You mentioned that the body's energy source depends on the intensity of the activity. Does this mean that if you want to lose fat you need to do longer moderate sessions over intensive cardio?

I find walking on an empty stomach in the morning, saves time. Eat first and nature calls. Haha

Imagine if someone just read the titles of all Pauls’s videos and didn’t realize they weren’t the contents of the video.

I have a bike ride of 30 min twice a day, 6.30 to work and 16.30 back home the morning ride is fasted

Love his smile in the beginning 😂

These new videos during your challenge have been so good!!! You're really describing things in such a real and relatable way. Thanks!!!

Another awesome to the point video! I've been thoroughly enjoying a keto / carnivore diet whilst building strength and losing fat and getting thru sessions no problem.. but not gaining muscle or losing fat at any decent rate. Maybe in the absence of carbs the gluconeogenesis is not sufficient to fuel my heavy duty workouts and sprints and my muscle might be breaking down to fuel some of that! I will now try having some fast digesting carbs before my workouts and see how that goes and also start walking fasted in the mornings (having just watched your other video) to burn some body fat whilst insulin levels are low. Thank you again for your awesome videos.

Thanks for the video. I have sleep apnea and I’ve noticed when I workout in the evening I find it hard to fall asleep. I’ve always considered it as an adrenaline kick from working out so close to bedtime. What do you think? Also, how does swimming rate as a cardio workout?

Golden information as always

Excellent share Paul. Thank You. Really informative and thinking out of the box for flexible workout times

Paul, thank you for your commitment to dispelling myths in the simplest way possible. I have a question: Lean bulking without tracking your weight. Any suggestions on strategies that we can use to make sure that we are progressing whilst avoiding putting in excess fat? I fear it may be too difficult to notice until it's too late, or on the other hand, that the fear keeps you from progressing. I've seen some coaches suggest cycling mini cuts and mini bulks, but there seems to be a lot of division on their effectiveness. Others suggested only eating in a surplus on training day. I was hoping for your input.

I always went running or walking for about 5 miles while I fasted.

Our bodies are much smarter than burning Muscle that simple, If in an extreme starvation yes when all the fats are gone, God created our human body to endure and live in extreme conditions

Paul, you have really helped me make some big changes. Thanks guy.

I'm waiting to have my first call from 1 of your staff and looking forward to it...I owner and operator my own construction business have 4 kids that do all different sports... the only time I get to my self is before work so I'm training 4am 430 am at the latest start I do mixture of resistance training and cardio.. but its the only time I get to my self considering my kids sports daily start 330pm straight from school finish around 9pm every night... My thoughts are I seem doomed to never get my ideal body.

Not only does our body use preferred fuel source depending on the intensity of said activity, even then it doesn't really matter what source your calories burned come from because if you're in a caloric deficit from the exercise, the net result at the end of the day will be x amount of calories burned. So, for example, even if I burn most of my calories from carbs during a high intensity workout -- yes I depleted mostly glycogen, but -- at the end of the day or week, my body will burn stored fat because it senses it is in a caloric deficit. So you're going to lose fat either way, regardless.

Great video Paul! When I used to work in an office, I did some skipping before work and strength training after work. It really is what you can continue to do well - these days I am all about walking for cardio. low impact and the stimulus to fatigue ratio is very low too.

Thanks Always Paul!!

Very informative video thank you brother cheers

Awesome video as always. Happy New Year! I will be relying on your content a lot for the post-holiday cut. Thank you.

Great Post Paul!... I am from Argentina! Love to do morning cardio and after 2-3 hours eating proteins and healthy fats. Going to work and do some weights afternoon.... @CMartinSalomon great post

Best youtube channel these days are Paul Revelia and Mind Pump.

One of the paradigms has been that eating before cardio, even low intensity, is going to spike insulin and blunt lipolysis. This seems to make sense physiologically. I do my walk in the morning several hours before my first meal. This just works for me and a big part of it is psychologically feeling like I’m burning fat based on the paradigm above, as cognitively dissonant as that notion may be….

You give the best advice!

Simple and cool video

you mentioned sometimes you do your walks on the treadmill morning and night depending on what phase your in- can you go into what you mean by these phases and how the walking treadmill workout fits into the phases? thank you!

I definitely guessed that was going to be your answer, however, I'm glad I watched until the end to see your insight as your team has amazing information :) 14" of snow here at my house....maybe a little less snow down there :P Cheers from Canada!

Well said

The best form of cardio is clenbuterol

Thank you Paul 😁

So I’m a nurse. I work 3 12hr shifts per week. I’m 154 lbs and 28 years old. 12.7% body fat BMR ~1750. (According to weight scale) I understand these are not accurate. I’m at this stage where I’m like skinny fat but not really even that fat. I just have some unwanted love handles. Under developed chest, etc. i don’t want to say I look terrible but I’m not toned. I was told to cut before bulking. I do my sessions in full after work. Usually just doing chest day. Leg day. Small muscle groups. Then repeat. I’m not seeing a ton of results on muscle building (3 months 5x weekly). I also do 5-15 min of either HIT (after workout 5 min) or a slow 15 min walk after every lift session. So should I start bulking? I’m pretty nervous to eat a surplus because I really wanted to get lean to show abs and get rid of this Side fat. Or should I just continue until there’s barely any left of side fat and start busting out a bulk to build muscle mass after. I think at this point I’m gaining a lot of strength but I’m not moving too much on comp. With that being said I do eat super clean, healthy, love cooking. Literally tuna, chicken, salmon, whitefish, tenderloin steak. Barely anything else. Black coffee only. High water intake. (Cheat with a SF redbull, preworkout)

Great advice - thanks.

I only do one thing before sleep sir.

Kurt Warener got shredded

I do cardio staring at the color purple. I get 7% increase in fat burning.

The best time is anytime.

You’re. Chan is so helpful .

Good stufff

Paul, I'm wondering if you have any special advice for those of us with type II diabetes? Our metabolisms are basically broken, and we are usually taking medications that affect glucose and insulin levels. I'm finding it a real challenge to avoid hypoglycemia while trying to lose body fat at the same time. Plus, once insulin levels spike a lot of normal metabolic functions are interrupted.

I'm currently dieting at 9 weeks in and I've lost a good amount of weight currently eating 1700 calories low-mid carbs and do 30 min of cardio post workout first thing in the morning. lately my appetite has been through the roof and constantly thinking about food at work. Should I skip post workout cardio in the morning and do it before bed to help with with appetite from getting out of control?

I’m sorry I started my exercise in the morning. Sometimes in the afternoon too .but my aft after I eat my first mea

Thanks 😊

I dont know why but if i do any sort of physicsl activity of a med or high intensity in the evening, i end up feeling wired and as a result go to bed/sleep a lot later than usual, which is not ideal when you gotta get up quiet early the following day.

Subscribed. Awesome channel

Great info. Thanks as usual.

I can testify to how inconsistent it could get if you leave Cardio for later in the day. Only way I have managed to have consistency is in the morning.

Hey Paul! Your channel is the best fitness channel out there. Thank you! I recently joined crossfit, I am 80kg and I want to do crossfit 3 times a week and weight training at the gym 3 times a week too. What do you suggest with regards to calories to eat? I do have some excess body fat, so I'm slightly confused. Thanks

Who has time to wake up and do cardio at 5am when you have to commute and be at work by 7?

Great vid as always brother 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

I shift work. When working days I do 30 min on the treadmill and then weight training after work. On nights I do weight training before work and then often do a HIIT cardio (spin class in Hotworx sauna) in the morning after work. Should I eat after this workout before I go to bed? I'm concerned about burning muscle. I'm currently 5' 9" 175 lbs 14% body fat. Would like to get to 10% and maintain the weight.

Helpful video, thanks!

Good advice!

Paul, what about doing like a 30 min 2 mile semi-intense but low impact walk at home followed by 45 min strength training ?

Amazing

Hi Paul. What is your choice of morning Cardio and for how long?

Great content 🙏🏽

Good morning Paul, I have been very intrigued with your videos. Do you do virtual training? Very interested. Thank you for all that you do

Paul I joined the challenge. Do you recommend we start cutting now or wait until the starting date? I am a bit confused I see you are already, getting ahead in your cutting.

If you do cardio at night how are you supposed to sleep at night. your body's relaxed but your mind is racing for hours.

Hi. Firstly. Love the content. I train everyday at 6am. Would it be beneficial to do low intensity cardio straight after weight training reason being. I don’t have time to attend gym In the evenings with my home life. My job involves a lot of walking so I’m regularly doing 10,000 steps a day.