🔥FAT LOSS: Lifting Weights VS Cardio (Science)
🏋️♂️Lifting weights is more important than doing cardio for losing fat.
This may sound counterintuitive because research clearly shows cardio burns more calories than lifting weight per minute of exercise [1]. But it’s important to remember that we don’t train for fat loss. Research shows exercise without considering nutrition has a limited effect on body fat loss [2].
Your nutrition being in a calorie deficit is mostly responsible for fat loss. While your training is responsible for making sure you lose mostly fat and not muscle in a fat-loss phase
If you maintain a calorie deficit and only do cardio, you will definitely lose fat, but also a good amount of muscle. Since you are watching this video, I assume your goal is to maintain good muscle definition as you lean. In this case, lifting weights is certainly more important than cardio.
As a general aim, focus 80% of your training on lifting weights and have the other 20% as cardio training to still get the health benefits of endurance training.
📚Scientific References (PMID):
1. 28513103
2. 25162652
3. 10487375