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You probably didn’t realize you were going against the experts by combining weight training and aerobic exercise on the same day. Not to worry (if you were): Despite the warnings of many in the sports world, two new studies report there’s nothing to the theory of “muscle interference” or “exercise antagonism” that advocates separating the two types of exercise. The popular notion held that weight training interferes with the body’s response to endurance exercise, while aerobics blunts muscles’ ability to strengthen due to weight training. Swedish scientists put this one day/one type of exercise theory to the test with a group of active young men, who pedaled a stationary bike using only one leg and then did strength training with both legs; muscle biopsies showed no difference between the legs. In a similar study with sedentary middle-aged men, Canadian researchers tested the effects of separate aerobic and strength exercises, then combined them. Again, there was no evidence of “interference” in the combined exercises. — Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, The Journal of Applied Physiology
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