Fat Burning Cardio Myths

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In this post about the cardio fat burning myth I will compare the difference between cardiovascular type exercise and strength training in the effectiveness for achieving fat loss results. Just to recap cardiovascular exercises or cardio for short are activities including walking, jogging, bike riding, rowing and swimming. Strength training also known as resistance training and weight training is a type of exercise that requires the muscles to move an apposing force.

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Most people believe cardio training to be the king of fat burning activities. This assumption and undying myth continues to live on because the general public aren’t aware of the negative reactions cardio exercises can have on the body. Most people also have little knowledge of the many benefits strength training can have for burning fat.

First lets take a look at what cardio training does to your hormones. Doing cardio type exercise raises cortisol; this will stop you losing fat because cortisol is a fat storing hormone. If rising cortisol levels aren’t bad enough for fat loss goals what about cardio making you age quicker because anti aging hormones are lowered when cortisol rises.

Strength training lowers cortisol and raises your anti aging hormones.

You only burn calories whilst you are doing the cardio exercise. The more cardio you do and better you become, the more fuel-efficient you become resulting in fewer calories used.

With strength training you burn calories after the workout. This means you burn fat doing nothing because strength training is more stressful on the body and takes a number of days to recover. Metabolism, the rate your body burns calories can be raised up to 72 hours after a weight training workout.

Cardio training can make you lose muscle tone, just look at any endurance athlete especially marathon runners. They may only have 10% body fat but still look flabby.

Strength training builds shape to the muscles helping to create a pleasing aesthetic appearance.

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If the above facts don’t put you off cardio exercises for your first choice in exercise selection for fat loss then consider how much more fun and diverse strength training can be. There are many different types of functional training equipment available to make strength training challenging and different every workout without the risk of being repetitive and boring like cardio training can be.
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