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Unless you are trying to make weight for a sport, or you’re competing in a weight loss contest, you aren’t trying to lose weight; you’re trying to lose body fat.
Losing weight doesn’t make you look better, losing body fat does. The type of weight you lose is more important than the amount of weight you lose.
Looking good isn’t a number on a SCALE; it is based on your body composition, your ratio of lean body mass to fat. If you want to transform your body, replace the mindset that cardio is how you burn fat. Exercise burns fat and strength training helps build and preserve muscle. If you don’t maintain lean body mass while dieting, your body composition will not improve and you will hit a fat loss plateau because your basal metabolic rate decreased as you lost muscle mass.
Cardio training promotes weight loss better than strength training, BUT, strength training is better at promoting fat loss, as demonstrated in this STUDY. The 12-week study found that the cardio group lost more weight, than the strength training group (32 pounds vs 28 pounds), but the strength training group had lost a lot less lean muscle mass
The study concluded “the addition of an intensive, high volume resistance training program resulted in preservation of lean body weight and resting metabolic rate during weight loss with very-low-calorie diets.”
Muscles are responsible for all the pleasing curves of the body. Strength training reshapes your body, cardio doesn’t. If you have a pear-shaped body and you only perform cardio training while restricting calories, you will end up with a smaller pear-shaped body. Strength training transforms your body shape and is the best form of training for improving body composition; cardio merely shrinks your existing body shape. Building muscle will help you to lose unwanted body fat and keeps it off without having to spend time doing cardio every day. When you are dieting, your goal should be to burn more calories and maintain muscle. Any exercise burns calories, not just cardio, and strength training will ensure you end your diet with a leaner harder looking physique.
If you want to look better, focus on fat loss not weight loss.
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Best wishes and Best Health!
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