Most every health professionals say that all you have to do is eat right and exercise. To most people that sounds easy but with so many false statements and myths about dieting and exercising it becomes complicated and frustrating trying to figure out what is correct and what is not. So I want to clear from your mind all that you have heard from exercise videos, dozens of fitness magazines, and hundreds of books. I want you to realize that all you really get from them are junk heaps of false conclusions, half-baked exercises, contradictions and nutrition theories that generate so much confusion and uncertainty.
Myth: Cardiovascular training is better for losing weight than weight training.
Truth: To make over your body, you MUST train with weights.
Getting a cardio work out is better than doing nothing but to really change your physique you need to weight train. When you weight train you increase your metabolic rate (the rate at which your body burns fat). Also, when you gain muscle it takes more energy to maintain your muscle than it does fat; fat just sits there. Because of that, weight training is even better than aerobic exercise for people that want to lose fat. When you weight train you raise the rate at which your body uses energy.
If you start up a cardiovascular training regimen your results will not be the most beneficial if you do not add weight training into it. You may lose weight but your shape will not change. When you weight train you actually change your shape, not just becoming a skinnier version of your self in the past. If you want a body transformation, weight training adding in cardio training is the best way to go.
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Source: “Body for Life” by Bill Phillips
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