Is this program geared only towards people that....

sweetie1975

are lifting weights?? I've been struggling with how many calories I should or shouldn't be eating so I'm interested to start this program. I've gone to the Scooby site and calculated my TDEE (20% cut) as being 1866 and setup my macros as 40-30-30 as suggested. But in reading this through this website, there is a lot of focus on woman who lift weights while doing the program. I do not own a gym membership; however, I do own a bowflex and I have an elliptical for my cardio. At the moment, I am going to an exercise class 3 days a week and working out for an hour each time. The class consists of five workout stations in which we work out for 5-6 minutes at each station completing a task designated for each station. Some examples of station workouts include 10 pushups, 10 mountain climbers, 10 pike pushups - this is considered one station and we keep repeating these tasks taking a small break after completing the three moves before moving to complete all three moves again and we have to do this for 5-6 minutes straight. Then we take a one minute break and move on to the next station which may include pushing/pulling a sled combined with wall sits. As you can see this class combines strength and cardio and is an awesome workout.

Back to my original question, is the EM2WL geared towards people who lift heavy weights with minimal cardio or can this work for anyone?

Jennbecca33

You don't have to lift weights to follow EM2WL. Many of the women do focus on strength training because they love the results and benefits from it. It sounds like you have a good mix of cardio and body weight exercise and it seems fairly balanced. Many women who do large amounts of cardio will run into problems when they don't/can't eat enough calories to support their high calorie burns, but as long as you've figured your activity level and eat accordingly, it will work for you. We all have to find the exercise that we truly enjoy and can stick with. I hope this helps! Welcome!

heybales

Read through the comments enough and you'll also discover that probably a good majority reached the point of doing this because they have been yo-yo dieting their life away so far, and wanted something different.

Yo-yo dieting always leads to muscle mass loss, so the reason for strength training is get back some of what was lost.

But, having a reasonable deficit approach (which this is) will always help performance of any sort, cardio or strength. You recover faster, you can push harder, you make body improvements better.

And for many I've noticed, the increased eating level is much more sustainable - so they don't need to do the cardio merely to burn more calories so they can eat at what was thought at the time to be a realistic calorie level.
Now they can eat that level and more, and not have to basically spin their wheels merely for calorie burn.

But you are doing resistance training.
That and reasonable deficit and enough protein will help retain what muscle mass you got.