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On Feb 21, 2:02 am, wrote:
Does weight lifting speed up weight loss quicker or does cardio exercises? Carido does -- but dieting helps most of all. You really can't burn enough calories to make up for a thousands of daily calories, unless maybe if you're Army infantry or something. If someone has a goal to lose about 45 to 50 lbs. in three months and are following a healthy diet/calorie plan, would cardio exercises be the best choice to meet their weight loss goal quicker? Definitely. But you should do some weight-training as well, just for the general healthy aspects of it. The advice from lifters is that muscles burn calories even at rest, but a recent NYT article this year noted that those increased muscles -- at rest -- would only burn an extra 25 or so calories a day...so yeah it's true that more musculature burns more calories but apparently not much more at all.... Two of my friends spent money on a personal trainer to help them with their weight loss goal. Their trainer had them due 20 minutes of cardio and 60 minutes of weight lifting with different routines 4 times a week. After 4 months of weightlifting with cardio exercises and following a healthy plan to reach their weightloss goal, they only loss 10 to 15lbs. Which was very frustrating for them. Yes, it may be frustrating, but it's also safer to lose weight slowly than too fast. It's also possible that your friends gained a few pounds of muscle (though probably only three or four) which had offset the losses. Main thing is to see whether they look good or not...there are people on that "Biggest Loser" TV show who weigh fifty pounds less than me and yet look round as a beach ball! Today, both of my friends lost a lot of weight by eating healthy and doing cardio exercises 4 times a week for 60 minutes a day on their own. One lost 55lbs. and the other lost 50lbs. They both tell me that cardio exercises helped them reach their weight loss goal quicker than weight lifting. Now that they have reached their goal, they are now incorporating weights to their exercises along with cardio. They exercise 3 times a week, each day 20-30 minutes of weightlifting and 30 minutes of cardio. Well, looks like you knew the answer all along, then! If someone has about 50 lbs. to 75 lbs. to lose in 6 months and follows a healthy food plan, should they lose the majority of their weight with cardio exercises first, then incorporate weight lifting and cardio once they reached their goal? Any thoughts? Yes, if weight loss is the primary objective, dieting is most effective, then cardio, then weights. But best of all is to incorporate all three, uh, "disciplines" into any plan. |
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On Feb 22, 9:58 am, Prisoner at War wrote:
On Feb 21, 2:02 am, wrote: Does weight lifting speed up weight loss quicker or does cardio exercises? Carido does -- but dieting helps most of all. You really can't burn enough calories to make up for a thousands of daily calories, unless maybe if you're Army infantry or something. If someone has a goal to lose about 45 to 50 lbs. in three months and are following a healthy diet/calorie plan, would cardio exercises be the best choice to meet their weight loss goal quicker? Definitely. But you should do some weight-training as well, just for the general healthy aspects of it. The advice from lifters is that muscles burn calories even at rest, but a recent NYT article this year noted that those increased muscles -- at rest -- would only burn an extra 25 or so calories a day...so yeah it's true that more musculature burns more calories but apparently not much more at all.... Two of my friends spent money on a personal trainer to help them with their weight loss goal. Their trainer had them due 20 minutes of cardio and 60 minutes of weight lifting with different routines 4 times a week. After 4 months of weightlifting with cardio exercises and following a healthy plan to reach their weightloss goal, they only loss 10 to 15lbs. Which was very frustrating for them. Yes, it may be frustrating, but it's also safer to lose weight slowly than too fast. It's also possible that your friends gained a few pounds of muscle (though probably only three or four) which had offset the losses. Main thing is to see whether they look good or not...there are people on that "Biggest Loser" TV show who weigh fifty pounds less than me and yet look round as a beach ball! Today, both of my friends lost a lot of weight by eating healthy and doing cardio exercises 4 times a week for 60 minutes a day on their own. One lost 55lbs. and the other lost 50lbs. They both tell me that cardio exercises helped them reach their weight loss goal quicker than weight lifting. Now that they have reached their goal, they are now incorporating weights to their exercises along with cardio. They exercise 3 times a week, each day 20-30 minutes of weightlifting and 30 minutes of cardio. Well, looks like you knew the answer all along, then! If someone has about 50 lbs. to 75 lbs. to lose in 6 months and follows a healthy food plan, should they lose the majority of their weight with cardio exercises first, then incorporate weight lifting and cardio once they reached their goal? Any thoughts? Yes, if weight loss is the primary objective, dieting is most effective, then cardio, then weights. But best of all is to incorporate all three, uh, "disciplines" into any plan. The real question is: is the goal to reduce your weight or to look better. Since muscle weighs more than fat we may even get weight at the beginning of exercising after a sedentary life style. I recommend to my weight reduction clients to forget about using the scale for the first few weeks of getting fit and use their clothes as a measure of success. Later they can use their weight as a guideline. As far as the original question is concerned a combination of eating well (lowering calories while eating more nutritious foods like more fruits and vegetables) doing both cardio and weights leads to best permanent weight reduction. |
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I have found the best way to lose weight is by doing the following, 1. Diet Eating the right foods will make things 1000 times easier 2. Interval Training I found my best results come from interval training. 3. Weight Program By having a weight program, you are also helping to burn off fat while build the muscle from underneath.
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My workout and diet program after I had my baby was vastly different from before. I'm trying to get used to the changes that my body recently weight through because of the pregnancy, so I'm still getting used to the different routines as well.
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Swimming is the best Cardio / calorie burning exercise out there and there is little to no impact on joints. No doubt a relaxing form of exercise means weight lost by swimming is fun too! I have been a swimmer my whole life and definitely recommend it to anyone looking to shape up.
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Cardio glow additional calories during the exercise, but weight-lifting builds more |
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For every 1 pound of lean muscle mass you have you will burn 100 calories so its very important to mix cardio with resistance training to optimize your metabolic fat burning abilities. If over time you add 10 pounds of lean muscle to your frame you will be burning 1,000 calories a day which will help you lose the body fat. Remember to not let the scale rule over you. You could be losing body fat but gaining lean muscle tissue at the same time and not see the scale go down. Its overall body composition you should shoot for. Let the fit of your clothes be your primary gauge not the scale.
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