Can I lose fat with strength training only??!
Question: Right now I'm working out 5-6 days a week, alternating strength training days, with cardio days. I'm also dieting. I've been at this for about 8 weeks now, and I'm definitely getting results. However, I absolutely hate and despise cardio, and love strength training. I'm doing both, but if I'm going to ever skip or miss one, bet it will be cardio.
Although I do plan on keeping cardio in my routine I'm just not as dedicated to it, and my curiosity wants to know if I could actually continue to burn fat with only strength training. I mean they say muscle burns fat. I'm not concerned with my weight, I mean no one has to know that but my doctor and I. I'm more concerned with my appearance. I've always been athletic all my life, I'm 5'8" and due to my muscle I've never actually weighed the average female weight, so I let that go a long time ago. I'm trying to lose left over weight from 2 pregnancies.
Answers: Right now I'm working out 5-6 days a week, alternating strength training days, with cardio days. I'm also dieting. I've been at this for about 8 weeks now, and I'm definitely getting results. However, I absolutely hate and despise cardio, and love strength training. I'm doing both, but if I'm going to ever skip or miss one, bet it will be cardio.
Although I do plan on keeping cardio in my routine I'm just not as dedicated to it, and my curiosity wants to know if I could actually continue to burn fat with only strength training. I mean they say muscle burns fat. I'm not concerned with my weight, I mean no one has to know that but my doctor and I. I'm more concerned with my appearance. I've always been athletic all my life, I'm 5'8" and due to my muscle I've never actually weighed the average female weight, so I let that go a long time ago. I'm trying to lose left over weight from 2 pregnancies.
You sound kinda like me, except I despise weight training! I HATEEEEEEE lifting weights. But, I DO know that to get good results that I want, I must do both. Even just a little bit of weight training.
My suggestion to you would be stick w/ cardio..even if it's just for a half hour 3 times a week. Cardio is GREAT for your heart and lungs...something that weight training doesn't really do much for.
Ecspecially for weight loss, id stick w/ the cardio.
I know it's not fun...but stick w/ it and you'll be happy.
also, have you ever heard of high - intensity interval training?
It's SHORT bursts of HIGH INTENSITY cardio.
Ex: sprint for 1 min. walk for 2. sprint for 1. Do this for about 20-30 mins...and that is OVER equivalant to a 45-1 hr workout.
minimal fat
you need aerobic exercise of some sort
You wouldn't burn nearly enough calories by lifting weights alone. That kind of calorie burning can only be achieved by activities that significantly raise your heart beat for a sustained amount of time.
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uhm, yeah you can., you can still burn fat with mostly weight training.... what u can do is high reps, and low reps.. low reps 6 - 8, high reps 12- 14.. the higher reps will burn more....
workout for a good 45 - 60 mins 4 - 5 times a week..
also weight loss is also all about the diet! u have to cut out the bad carbs, eat more proteins, and eat better carbs.... cut out your white flour, white bread, sugars, sweets, all that stuff..
You can if you change your strength training workout into a circuit training workout. With very little rest between exercises and the use of supersets you will get your heart rate up and if the workout lasts20-30 minutes with that elevated heart rate, your body will burn fat with the advantage of resistance exercises. You will want to change up this routine from time to time and still mix in some cardio - you could get on the eliptical for less time at the end of your circuit routine because you have already been doing cardio basicly.
There are methods that can help reduce fat and build muscle. There are other excercises that have a tendency to do one or the other. Personally I favour cardio friends of mine go with programmes that do both - pretty well. I would have a look for a programme that will help do both rather than just work on building muscle as I think it makes people look a bit disproportianate. If you stop doing cardio I think you will keep burning it but at a slower rate, look at the worlds strongest men for example, they are strong as you like but not that lean.