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    Cardio or strength training

    Posts: 2 Member
    edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
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    • Posts: 2,469 Member
      Alternate days of each?
    • Posts: 13,049 Member
      angelgina74 wrote: »
      Cardio or strength training

      Yes.
    • Posts: 11,233 Member
      both
    • Posts: 15,488 Member
      What are your goals? To just loose weight? Well neither is necessary to loose weight.

      But if you want to get lean and mean or just maintain the muscle mass you have, lifting, lifting, lifting..

      If you want to bulk and gain mass, lifting lifting, lifting and then when you want to cut, lifting, cardio, lifting. Cardio will help you loose body fat while you continue to lift but it is not necessary.

      I wish I had started lifting in the very beginning.. even while trying to loose weight, you can maintain the muscle mass you have..
    • Posts: 10,413 Member
      Not or. And.
    • Posts: 19,809 Member
      False dichotomy.
    • Posts: 14,517 Member
      edited November 2015
      For weight loss (only)....simply eat less OR do cardio, and then get a bit more to eat.

      For fitness and health.......do both

      Each discipline has it's own health benefits. I used to be one of those cardio only people. The problem was I got to goal, and was still a bit "fluffy" looking.
    • Posts: 41,865 Member
      as a matter of general fitness, both are pretty damn important.
    • Posts: 419 Member
      Both, cardio for burning calories, strength training for building muscles.
    • Posts: 304 Member
      Definitely defined by what your goals are.
    • Posts: 18,343 Member
      Why not both? Strength training helps retain muscle while you lose the fat and makes you stronger. Cardio helps create a deficit and is good for your heart.
    • Posts: 645 Member
      Both!
    • Posts: 900 Member
      Beer!
    • Posts: 3,473 Member
      rjmudlax13 wrote: »
      Beer!

      My reason for cardio.
    • Posts: 473 Member
      Both
    • Posts: 237 Member
      For older people like me, strength training is critical. When you eat in deficit to loose weight you loose lean mass along with muscle. With age you loose muscle and mobility. A double whammy unless you do something about it since the muscle loss is essentially aging you faster. The something is strength training. I mix low rep strength sessions and metabolic conditioning sessions (kettlebells). I quit running decades ago. Recently, in danger of missing a flight I ran halfway around LAX while carrying my carry on (going too fast for rolling). I was in shape for it without having done anything called cardio for over thirty years. The point, you can have the aerobic fitness for life without steady state cardio. It's all about your objectives. I decided to loose weight and not let it do all the muscle loss damage of diet and cardio without strength training. If you train hard, at my age doing cardio and strength gives me big recovery issues (another curse of aging) so I had to choose "or".
    • Posts: 2,696 Member
      Strength always priority. Cardio twice a week.
    • Posts: 1,519 Member
      Both
    • Posts: 410 Member
      Both.

      Cardio has greatly improved my heart, lungs and breathing techniques for when I work out. Cardio gives me more calories which means I dont feel deprived on my weight loss journey.

      Strength training has given me definition, I have a much stronger core and stamina, I feel fitter.
    • Posts: 15,573 Member
      I'd say both. But I don't listen to my own advice, and only lift. Though doing cardio when I just started losing was a great help as I could eat a bit more.
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