Is cardio necessary to lose weight?

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  • ktrn0312
    ktrn0312 Posts: 723 Member
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    Bumped for future reference.
  • LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo
    LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo Posts: 3,634 Member
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    You need to eat at a deficit to lose weight. For me cardio isnt that much necessary unless you need to create a bigger deficit (e.g. A woman standing 5'2" & weighs 120 lbs. will have a BMR of 1300 & if she set her levels to sedentary, that would only put her TDEE at 1500 calories a day which means that her body cannot afford to create large deficit by nutrition alone if she wants to lose weight). It doesn't matter how much cardio you do, the key is you have to eat in calorie deficit to be able to lose weight. Cardio's main objective is to improve your endurance & also help create deficit since it burns a lot of calories in a short time, however overdoing it will do the exact opposite to your body.

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