Side Cramps while running

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Okay for a while I would hit the gym and do around 50 mins of Cardio first (20min Tread/30 min Eliptical). When it was time to hit the weights I was quite winded and didn't have the strength to get a good lift in.

Everyone I talked to said switch it around. I started doing a 30 minute weight circuit routine and before hitting the treadmill and eliptical machine. Now I'm getting side cramps around 10 minutes into my run. I have been stretching prior to my cardio, something I wasn't doing before.

Any tips?
 
Alteration is Key

According to the American College of Sports Medicine, the importance of resistance training cannot be emphasized enough. They suggest performing a minimum of 8 to 10 separate exercises that train the major muscle groups. However, they also recommend that these exercises by performeed only 2-3 times/week. Therefore, if you feel greatly fatigued when you do cardio prior to resistance training, then, try alternating your cardio days with your weight training days. If this is not possible, try to alter time of day workouts. For example, maybe get up 30 minutes earlier in the morning to do cardio and then performe your resistance work out later in the afternoon or evening. In this way, your body should have a chance to recover and your motivation will be upheld. I find that by breaking up my workout into two sessions has greatly increased my endurance and ability to hit the weight room with less struggle.
 
ya definately do the running in the morning then the weight training later in the day after a meal same thing happened to me. You'r body needs time to recover from the running.
 
I have always done and recently read that you are supposed to end your workout with cardio if you do both cardio and weights in the same workout. I normally just do 5-10 mins of biking before weights to get the blood flowing and then end the routine with a 3 mile run.
 
It all depends on your focus. If you want to be a long-distance runner, you run before weights and run on other days without weights. These weight workouts should have higher reps and lighter weight, as when you run, you should be strengthening, but your goal is not weight gain.

If you want to gain muscle and lose fat (get bigger), start your workout with weights then do cardio. Doing it this way will burn glucose faster so when you do cardio, you will burn more fat. Also, you have more energy to put into harder sets and good form.

If you are getting side-aches, it's because you're not getting enough oxygen for one reason or another--either you're just really tired or you're not breathing deeply enough. Try to breath through the nose in and out the mouth both for weights and cardio. Take long, deep breaths, if you can.

Splitting your workout is another good move, though this removes the glucose-burning effect (burning more fat) of cardio after weights. I'd work up to longer times. Or you could split your weights between days and do a little cardio after each.
 
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