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tenshiblue
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Has anyone successfully lost weight with weight training alone?
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Has anyone successfully lost weight with weight training alone?
What do you mean by weight training alone? Do you mean weight training as the only form of exercise or as the only thing about your lifestyle that you change?0 -
Has anyone successfully lost weight with weight training alone?
What do you mean by losing weight? Do you mean losing bodyfat and maintaining lean mass, effectively changing your body composition and dramatically improving your overall appearance?
If so, the answer is HELL YES.
Here, I made this little picture to illustrate just this point:
That's only 3mos time, and 40lbs of almost entirely fat (215lbs to 173lbs). I did ZERO cardio other than about 15 minutes of heavy bag work before my 1hr or so low rep/high intensity lifting routine.
The same type of routine is incredibly effective for women as well.0 -
yes. exercise and weight loss are independent.0
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I mean lose weight without doing any cardio exercise but with weight training alone.0
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yes. exercise and weight loss are independent.
Independant certainly, but by intelligently applying the former to your diet, you can most definitely improve the effects on the latter.0 -
I do almost no cardio0
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*raises hand*0
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crisanderson, those are pretty amazing results. Was your calorie intake at a cut or did you eat more with your weight training?Has anyone successfully lost weight with weight training alone?
What do you mean by losing weight? Do you mean losing bodyfat and maintaining lean mass, effectively changing your body composition and dramatically improving your overall appearance?
If so, the answer is HELL YES.
Here, I made this little picture to illustrate just this point:
That's only 3mos time, and 40lbs of almost entirely fat (215lbs to 173lbs). I did ZERO cardio other than about 15 minutes of heavy bag work before my 1hr or so low rep/high intensity lifting routine.
The same type of routine is incredibly effective for women as well.0 -
Yes. I basically do no cardio.0
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I do almost no cardio
darn0 -
I hate cardio. Why kill yourself sweating like a pork roast when you can lift and eat properly!0
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Me. I did about 2 months of light running to be able to finish a 10k earlier in the year.0
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I do almost no cardio
darn
I said almost0 -
crisanderson, those are pretty amazing results. Was your calorie intake at a cut or did you eat more with your weight training?Has anyone successfully lost weight with weight training alone?
What do you mean by losing weight? Do you mean losing bodyfat and maintaining lean mass, effectively changing your body composition and dramatically improving your overall appearance?
If so, the answer is HELL YES.
Here, I made this little picture to illustrate just this point:
That's only 3mos time, and 40lbs of almost entirely fat (215lbs to 173lbs). I did ZERO cardio other than about 15 minutes of heavy bag work before my 1hr or so low rep/high intensity lifting routine.
The same type of routine is incredibly effective for women as well.
Thank you .
To lose weight (fat preferably) you must eat at a deficit. That's what Taso meant when he said it's independant. Diet is king. A deficit will lose weight, a surplus will add it. This is a pretty much set in stone rule. Exercise (and type of exercise) is a modifier only. Heavy lifting while eating a proper amount of protein and other macros, on a deficit, tends to maintain lean mass (you're telling your body by the type of activity you're engaging in that you NEED your lean mass), and target fat as the fuel to make up the deficit.
Cardio has other benefits to your health however, which is something that needs to be kept in mind.0 -
I do almost no cardio
darn
I said almost
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YES0
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What's cardio?:glasses:0
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Hell ya0
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See my weight loss ticker at 80+ lbs lost?
2 years. Basically all diet with some bouts of heavy lifting here and there. Recently added heavy lifting again.
NO CARDIO.0 -
right here0
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