Recovery Day as a Weight Day?

[Jayem]

Is it acceptable to replace a full on recovery day with a weight day? I mean, no intense cardio (just a 10min warm-up) and about an hours worth of weight training. Would it be best to not do ANY exercise on those days?

 

[Karky]

how does your entire routine look like? we need to know the context around this rest day.. Do you only have one rest day a week and do cardio on all other days? I think you should have at least one day a week where you don't train or you could quickly burn out..

 

[Jayem]

I run about every other night, and during the day I hit the gym around 5.30-6am and stay there for a good two hours. Those two hours usually consist of 1.5 hours cardio (stepmill, elliptical, plain ol tredmill) and about a half hour to 45mins of weight training.

 

[Waitwhat?]

I run about every other night, and during the day I hit the gym around 5.30-6am and stay there for a good two hours. Those two hours usually consist of 1.5 hours cardio (stepmill, elliptical, plain ol tredmill) and about a half hour to 45mins of weight training.

I have two questions:

1. Why are you doing 1.5 hours of cardio?

2. Are you doing your weight training after your cardio? If so, why?

 

[Jayem]

I have two questions:

1. Why are you doing 1.5 hours of cardio?

2. Are you doing your weight training after your cardio? If so, why?

I usually get a 'high' while doing the cardio after about 35-40mins and want to do more. If I didn't stop myself, I could probably do about 2 full hours worth. I do weight training after an initial warm up, and then go back to the cardio afterwards. I heard it was better this way, but whether it's true or not, I have no clue.