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Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28
If you want to lose weight, cardio is the only way to go.
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"cardio" and all that crap will also get rid of your hard earned work. especially ling distange running...
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Lifting weights does NOTHING for your heart or your cardiovascular system, which is why its called "cardio".
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Cardio is anything that gets your heart rate up, most people sweat their asses off while lifting. In fact if you go to the gym and dont break a sweat, please GTFO and dont clutter up the space. not directed towards you, but people in general. While weight lifting wont give a stamina of a marathon runner, it will still give your heart a work out. Resistance training will result in added muscle, which raises the metabolic rate and contributes to greater losses in fat.
Ohh and "target heart zone" is pure crap...
to further prove my point.
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Fat loss is something most of us want at some point. The best way to lose fat and keep it off is to turn the body into a fat burning furnace through regular resistance training coupled with strategic aerobic work. Aerobic work such as walking for a minimum of 30 minutes, or running, as a sole activity, is not the best way to burn fat as it targets fat, protein and carbohydrates.
The metabolic rate is raised during aerobic activity, but it soon returns to resting level. Weight training, on the other hand, builds muscle, which burns many calories at rest, as it is a metabolically active tissue. Aerobic work without resistance training, and other fitness components, may, at best, result in a smaller physique with marginal decreases in body fat over the long term.
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but then again i've alredy said that...