This may shock most people but, strength training actually will cause you to burn more fat than cardio training. This is a basic truth of losing fat or increasing your metabolism. Most people believe that if they sweat it out on a treadmill they burn more calories than if they use weights. This is false.
Strength training is the best way to increase your metabolism. By increasing your metabolism you will burn fat and sustain weight loss. I still recommend cardio training but remember when it comes to burning fat, there is no substitute for strength training.
Here is an example that will show you how muscle burns calories. A pound of fat burns 5 calories per day. A pound of muscle burns 50 calories per day! By adding 5 pounds of great looking muscle you will increase the amount of calories you burn per day to 250! That is equivalent to doing 30 minutes of cardio training per day.
So for burning calories there is not substitute to strength training. Once again I still recommend cardio training but, never substitute cardio training for weight training.
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I believe that in any sports or fat burning we need to lift weights. Like how runners need to lift weights. And I mean heavy weights. Even if you don’t want to be a bodybuilder, you need weights for strength training and for maintaining muscle mass. Also, if you love running, for the joy of running, don’t give it up. And don’t give up your weight training either.
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Cardio still persists as a false fat loss perception. I think cardio mostly works to burn fat while you perform it while resistance training continues to burn fat well after your weights session sometimes up to five days after.
The added benefit of weight training is the prospect of adding extra muscle mass! Adding extra muscle will increase your body’s overall energy requirements even at rest or even while sleeping.
While cardio is great for increasing your cardiovascular fitness, it doesn’t have the compounding fat burning affects of adding ever increasing amounts of muscle which only resistance training can provide.
Great article!
The problem is the fat in your belly. Think of this belly fat as stored energy. That’s what body fat is: stored energy. Thousands of sit-ups and crunches do not require enough energy to burn away at this fat. This is why crunches, leg raises, and other ab exercises just don’t work.
Thank you very much for the post!
Guys always wonder why they couldn’t lose weight or have a better figure. The point is they finding for a silver bullet that gives them what they want immediately while all they need to do is reading helpful articles like this and do the exercises.
take creatine before you lift and a protein shake and some eggs or whatever to bring your protein intake up to 30 grams so your body can use every last of ounce of the protein