Gym benefits.

Think I'll do a few more reps with another cold one.

"Who does cardio before weights anyway?"

Some people use it as a warm up. P.E. classes sometimes make the students run track before going to the weight room.

If you do cardio after weights, you will lose muscles fibers.

I've always done cardio before weights. My main purpose for going to the gym is to get my heart going and work up a sweat.
I only lift because the equipment is available and it lengthens the time I'm there, but I find lifting to be boring. I'm not going to try to lift heavy loads, so I find something comfortable and do 10-15-20 reps. Never have had much upper body strength.

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Well, aren't you the stunning creature of self discipline. Good on ya !

No. I only have experience in veterinary. I've seen neutering procedures, assisted in vaccinations but work is hard to find.

Adding muscle mass helps to shed fat, and keep it off. It does this in two ways. First, the body has two fuel sources: glycogen, the blood sugar created from the food you ate, and adipose tissue, or fat. If you don’t metabolize all your sugar, the body stores it as fat. The body will ALWAYS prefer to metabolize sugar before burning fat. Doing anaerobic training prior to aerobic training helps to pre-exhaust your sugar, forcing the body to burn fat. You are teaching your body to stop resisting using fat as a fuel source. Second, muscle tissue raises your metabolism. The more muscle mass, the more your metabolism is permanently elevated. And you might be surprised how beneficial and rewarding muscles, on women and men alike, can be. A woman likes a man who can last a long time.