Running, not weights, burns fat :/

Weights have always had that opinion because it creates tone and definition, making you believe you've cut the fat when usually it is building the muscle that is already there. Running burns fat by increasing your heart rate because it's a cardio workout.

Weights have always had that opinion because it creates tone and definition, making you believe you've cut the fat when usually it is building the muscle that is already there. Running burns fat by increasing your heart rate because it's a cardio workout.

My weights have no opinion. I just pick them up and put them down.

"when considering the big picture, I like to encourage individuals to pursue a complete exercise program — including both aerobic exercise and resistance training,"

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Ican't run, I need a knee replacement!

Quick Summary of Fat


Fat can not become muscle and muscle can not become fat.
Fat can only be reduced if the number of calories expended in a day exceeds the number of calories consumed in a day. Fat will be gained if the opposite occurs.
If you stop training, but compensate for this with a slight reduction in diet, your body fat will not increase.
If you begin training but also increase your dietary intake, you can gain fat.
Fat cells act as one, meaning you can not choose where you lose it or gain it.
Quick Summary of Muscle


Changes in muscle size, density and/or efficiency cause an increase in strength; however, these changes only result if the muscle is stimulated beyond what it is accustomed to.
Weight training is the easiest way to control and monitor the changes in your muscle physiology. By manipulating your sets, reps and weight lifted you can achieve various responses. Because of this, it is possible to increase your strength without adding bulk, and it is also possible to increase both.
When you stop stimulating the muscle, your muscle composition may return to normal or, depending on your regular routine, it may simply stay as is.
Unlike fat, each muscle can be specifically targeted, so you can choose the specific area you would like to improve. With that said, realize that while you can work your abdominal muscles, for example, you may not see the enhanced shape and form if you have a thick layer of fat covering them up.

Cardio will burn more calories in general, it is true. This will result in more fat loss overall.

But without weights, the extra cardio will further reduce muscle mass, which will leave you still looking "fat" even when you hit lower weight levels and lower body fat percentages.

Weights will make everything look much better in the end though.

A calorie deficit burns fat, however you want to get that calorie deficit.

Weights have benefits
Running has different benefits

They both are beneficial.

i heard the same thing on Biggest Loser UK

Meh, I think they are both helpful. Weights create more muscle which burns more fat but running gets your heart rate up which I'm sure is good for your metabolism and still burns calories and also builds muscle (maybe not as big). Running is an easy way to get a little bit of exercise to the whole body.

Cardio will burn more calories in general, it is true. This will result in more fat loss overall.

But without weights, the extra cardio will further reduce muscle mass, which will leave you still looking "fat" even when you hit lower weight levels and lower body fat percentages.

Weights will make everything look much better in the end though.

What he said. Or to summarize:

Run - lose weight
Lift - look good naked

Yes.

A calorie deficit burns fat, however you want to get that calorie deficit.

Weights have benefits
Running has different benefits

They both are beneficial.

this needs to be repeated

This makes about as much sense as saying, "Stirring, not heat cooks soup"

You look lovely. Good work!

To say running or any form of exercise "burns fat" is not entirely accurate. They burn CALORIES. Some of those calories come from fat some from other sources depending on a lot of factors. You can compare one type, speed, intensity of exercise to another and see some differences and then say one is superior to the other but that is where people run into trouble.

Exercise burns calories.

Calories deficit causes "weight" loss. Notice I didnt say fat loss? What percentage of that weight loss is body fat and what is lean body mass? Diet and exercise are going to play a huge role in that.

Some exercises promote the retention of lean body mass and some dont. So if you want to ensure the weight loss from your calorie deficit is a more body fat than lean mass, is running a better or worse exercise than resistance training?

Do both.

I agree mostly, but the study specifically claims that running provides higher fat loss. It doesn't say just higher weight loss. I assume they dunked them before/after to get accurate fat percentage stats. Of course its the amount of calories that are lost that will lead into the fat loss, but some people would claim that an activity could burn less calories but end up shifting more fat, perhaps by providing an after-burn or boosting metabolism.

In the past I have lost weight without doing any weights, and ended up looking weak and wasted at the end of it, so I agree its definitely good to use weights to maintain or increase lean muscle while dieting.

Weights have always had that opinion because it creates tone and definition, making you believe you've cut the fat when usually it is building the muscle that is already there. Running burns fat by increasing your heart rate because it's a cardio workout.

fat loss creates tone and definition.