Is Cardio Good For Fat Loss?
 

As an Orange County Personal Trainer I get asked this all the time. Most people think the best way to burn fat and drop weight is to do endless amounts of cardio. Not True. In fact, doing endless amounts of cardio can actually hurt your chances of getting leaner.

You see, slow-paced cardio can actually strip valuable muscle tissue off your body, and muscle helps you increase your metabolism and burn fat at the same time. So, you don’t want that.

Also, your metabolism is not significantly increased afterwards when performing slow-paced cardio. This means that you will not burn as much fat as possible.

The best thing you can do to really ignite your metabolism is to perform fast-paced, all out intensity type of training, such as interval training and weight resistance. Weight-resistance and interval training will have your metabolism on fire for up to 48 hours afterwards, allowing you to burn fat for a much longer period of time.

Also, lifting weights will help you build muscle, which in turn will help you burn fat. In addition, lifting weights will promote your body’s growth hormone release. And growth hormone will help you not only burn fat, but also slow down the aging process. That is why people who lift weights consistently, look much younger than their chronological age.

When I was once a San Diego Personal Trainer, I tested many types of fat-burning strategies over the last 17 years, experimenting with many different clients. And I have found that the best strategy to losing fat and getting into incredible shape is lifting weights and performing interval training on a regular basis, combined with a good nutrition plan of course.
 

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