I’ve spoken to many clients over the years and there seems to always be a common thought when it comes to loosing weight. Do more cardio!
This has to be one of the biggest mistakes people go into trying lose weight! Rolling into a gym and proceeding to do an hour on the treadmill and hating every minute of it!
Did you know that for 1 hour on a treadmill at 3.5-5mph you will only burn 300-600cal. You would have to do that 7 times a week to even burn a single pound of fat!
So if cardio isn’t the answer then what is??
The surprising answer is weight training.
In a study by American journal of physiology weight training proved to be much more effective than aerobic exercise!
How can this be you ask?
Well, when you break muscles down with weight training they have to rebuild and this takes calories. And once you have more muscles you burn more calories just sitting at your desk or when you’re resting! Where do these calories come from? They come from your bodies fat stores! Therefore you will be burning more fat more consistently if your strength train over doing cardio!
And let’s be honest running or bike won’t develop tone and muscles to get a rocking bod the way weight lifting does! Once all that hard work to shed fat is done it would be nice to have toned muscles, am I right?!
This is not to say that aerobic training doesn’t have its benefits for overall health and cardiovascular health. BUT it is not going to be as effective at reducing body fat and getting you to your goals!
Contact me or check out BroFit for a strength method that will get you the body you want!
Keep Crushing it!
Ben
Elite Chiropractic 