For weight loss, would you recommend cardio or weights?

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Lalo Vera · Answer

For weight loss, I'm assuming fat loss, I'm gonna go with a mixture of weights and cardio. Just enough cardio so that you're not gassing yourself out too much as far as your energy levels. And for weight training, just enough weight training to sustain your cardio. You gotta be a little bit sore, but not too much because you're gonna be in a caloric deficit with your nutrition. So if you're eating less than what you need, you're gonna be tired. If you tire yourself out way too much and you demand your muscles to grow, it's not gonna happen if you're in a deficit. So just be careful balancing both, but it is a mixture of cardio and weights.

Matthew Pendola · Answer

When it comes to weight loss, and if we're only going to first discuss exercise options, then we need to look at total calories burned being the most important factor. So that being said, short term, I would look at cardio. You can do anything from low intensity to high intensity. Now the low intensity work, you can burn those total calories you're looking for. It's just going to take you longer. High intensity work, you can get there sooner with the total calories burned that day, but it takes more out of you. You need more recovery. You can't do it as often. So I like zone two actually, where you can use the conversational method, the talk test. That's a good zone to be in. You can be consistent with it. And it's just something that's pretty good bang for your buck when it comes to your weight loss. Now in the long term, of course, strength training is paramount for your body composition and your overall health and ability to move better. So I think that that really should go hand in hand, cardio and strength. Now really in either case, the amount of extra calories you burn through exercise, an extra pound of lean muscle is only about an extra six calories a day. An extra mile that you run is only about an extra hundred calories. So we have to finish this conversation with nutrition. Energy in versus energy out. You cannot out exercise a bad diet. You have to get proper sleep. You have to recover well. So these factors really have to be paramount. And then the exercise complements that. I hope you, if you have any other questions about that, let me know. But I hope you get that it's really about prioritizing your nutrition and what you put into your body first.

John Sinclair · Answer

The age old question for weight loss, would you recommend cardio or weights? I recommend both. You have to do both. Just doing cardiovascular exercise is not sufficient enough to tell the body to lose weight. Neither is just doing weight training. Now there's lots of things we can do in our program to enhance your body's ability to lose weight, but I find the most effective way of doing that is to combine them. So there's ways that we can do what we call peripheral heart action. So I'm using weights and lifting them quick to get a cardiovascular response. So I would have a time under tension of anywhere from 60 to 120 seconds and do combinations of different movements together to help drive blood flow throughout the whole body. So using the lower legs, the upper legs, the trunk and the core, the chest, the shoulders, the back and the arms to create some cardiovascular responses. So all exercise is cardio, but not all cardio is weight training. So we need to combine them both and also do them, doing cardio and weight training on the same day is effective if we give ourselves about four to six hours in between or choose one day cardio, one day weights, one day cardio, one day weights and your body will really love you for it.

Justin Kompf · Answer

Alright, for weight loss, would you recommend cardio or weights? Now this is actually a little bit of a complex question. At the highest level, cardiovascular exercise is probably going to help you lose more weight. As a matter of fact, resistance training alone just by itself without being in a caloric deficit is about a kilogram of weight loss altogether. That being said, most people are actually, even when they say weight loss, they're probably more interested in body composition changes and then also keeping the weight off when they lose it. So two things. One, doing strength training will help to either A, increase muscle mass or at least preserve muscle mass when you're in a caloric deficit. So you'll have much more favorable changes in body composition, meaning the weight that you lose, as long as you're in a calorically restricted diet, will be from fat and not from muscle. This is going to be really, really important because if you lose weight, as you lose weight, your resting metabolic rate actually goes down. So if you lose muscle, your resting metabolic rate goes down. So what we want to do in order to ensure long-term weight loss maintenance is to make sure that what we're losing is primarily fat. So we want to retain as much muscle as we can because in the long run, that is going to help you keep the weight off. So high level cardio probably will make you lose more weight, but if the outcome that you're interested in is favorable changes in body composition and then long-term weight loss maintenance, I would do strength training. That being said, do both. Bye.

Bryan Meyer · Answer

So the question is for weight loss, would you recommend cardio or weights? Well, I'm going to shoot a question back to you. So if you go into any health club and you look at the people, and I'm going to stereotype the people that, actually you're going to stereotype the people that are on the treadmills, on the ellipticals. Look at them and then look at the people that are doing some sort of free weights, some sort of machines, and look at the body types. And you'll definitely see a difference of that person that's been on that rat race, on that treadmill, very dedicated, but doing that so-called cardio. So hopefully that answers your question, because you can definitely see a difference. And I'm not trying to be mean, but definitely, hopefully you've come to conclusion of what is the better way for weight loss. But now your aerobic fitness is super, super important, but if you don't have the muscular system to hold that, to hold your body together, your cardio is not going to be anything. So think about that. Hopefully that helps. And I think you just answered your own question.

Benjamin Kessel · Answer

For weight loss, would you recommend cardio or weights? We have to be pretty specific when we talk about weight loss. There's so many different ways that we can lose weight. It could be through water weight. We can lose lean body mass. We can lose body fat. There's tons of ways, and depending on who you are and what you're trying to do, this question could be answered very differently. For example, if you're wrestling and you have to cut weight for an event, then we're trying to drop a lot of water before. But if we're talking about just general, you know, lowering body fat composition, the main three things is cardiovascular exercise, resistance training, and proper nutrition, or adequate nutrition for that respect. Also with that is sleep and anything else to aid in recovery and allowing that your body is just working properly. Totally depends though, it's a very specific answer to the specific person, so it depends where you are and what you need. So if you're already exercising a lot cardiovascularly, you may need to increase your lean body mass by doing more strength training and eating a little bit more at first to get your metabolism up, and then you can drop weight correctly. So there's tons of ways you can answer this. We can kinda keep digging and peeling the layers into this with more follow-up questions.

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