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Second, do not just do cardio, like my idiot self, I decided that cardio would be the way to lose. It was BUT I lost a lot of muscle mass in the process. Also, as well as weight lifting and ab workouts with weights build muscle mass, and speed up your metabolism and heart rate, it also helps you burns calories for the next 48 hours as opposed to cardio which stops burning calories as soon as you stop.

Second, do not just do cardio, like my idiot self, I decided that cardio would be the way to lose. It was BUT I lost a lot of muscle mass in the process. Also, as well as weight lifting and ab workouts with weights build muscle mass, and speed up your metabolism and heart rate, it also helps you burns calories for the next 48 hours as opposed to cardio which stops burning calories as soon as you stop.

While the advice to do resistance and cardio is good advice. It's not true that you stop burning calories as soon as you stop doing cardio. You may stop burning soon after, but you may continue to burn for several hours. It just depends on you and what type of cardio you are doing.

Clinically it's called statistically insignificant. Even HIIT doesn't equate to much either when post workout movement/activity has been adjusted downwards, basically people move less (referred to as NEAT) after a tough workout and compensates for any after burn, but of course this doesn't mean everyone.

Second, do not just do cardio, like my idiot self, I decided that cardio would be the way to lose. It was BUT I lost a lot of muscle mass in the process. Also, as well as weight lifting and ab workouts with weights build muscle mass, and speed up your metabolism and heart rate, it also helps you burns calories for the next 48 hours as opposed to cardio which stops burning calories as soon as you stop.

While the advice to do resistance and cardio is good advice. It's not true that you stop burning calories as soon as you stop doing cardio. You may stop burning soon after, but you may continue to burn for several hours. It just depends on you and what type of cardio you are doing.

Clinically it's called statistically insignificant. Even HIIT doesn't equate to much either when post workout movement/activity has been adjusted downwards, basically people move less (referred to as NEAT) after a tough workout and compensates for any after burn, but of course this doesn't mean everyone.

Statistically insignificant in what way? And how does it compare to the amount of calories burned by having more muscle?

Does HIIT actually qualify as cardio? I always thought cardio = aerobic. When doing HIIT I doubt you'd be in the aerobic zone much.

Second, do not just do cardio, like my idiot self, I decided that cardio would be the way to lose. It was BUT I lost a lot of muscle mass in the process. Also, as well as weight lifting and ab workouts with weights build muscle mass, and speed up your metabolism and heart rate, it also helps you burns calories for the next 48 hours as opposed to cardio which stops burning calories as soon as you stop.

While the advice to do resistance and cardio is good advice. It's not true that you stop burning calories as soon as you stop doing cardio. You may stop burning soon after, but you may continue to burn for several hours. It just depends on you and what type of cardio you are doing.

Clinically it's called statistically insignificant. Even HIIT doesn't equate to much either when post workout movement/activity has been adjusted downwards, basically people move less (referred to as NEAT) after a tough workout and compensates for any after burn, but of course this doesn't mean everyone.

Statistically insignificant in what way? And how does it compare to the amount of calories burned by having more muscle?

Does HIIT actually qualify as cardio? I always thought cardio = aerobic. When doing HIIT I doubt you'd be in the aerobic zone much.

The after burn from aerobic and anaerobic cardio, which HIIT is, doesn't equate to much value calorie burn wise after adjusting for neat, which means None Exercise Activity Thermogenesis, basically daily movement other than deliberate exercise.

Hmm, I'm remembering a study done at a NC university that showed an average afterburn of 14 hours for cardio (exercise bike, I believe) among the participants, which were described as fit young men (or something similar). 14 hours seems significant, even if the burn was only slightly more than at rest w/o cardio.

But it's been a while since I read that study. Maybe I'll look it up to re-read later.

All studies show after burn and why we're talking about it, but anytime exercise is performed, especially at higher intensity people tend to not move as much after as compared to a day they didn't exercise....basically any calories from the after burn are compensated by less normal activity, In other words as far as weight loss is concerned the after burn is clinically insignificant. Don't really know any other way of explaining it, sorry.

So even though we are burning more at rest, we are at rest more, so not burning more overall? That's interesting. But surely that would not apply only to cardio.