What burns more fat Cardio or strength training?

Gauti2017
Gauti2017 Posts: 5 Member
edited November 2024 in Motivation and Support
I have been going to the gym for the past two weeks, at first the trainer asked me to do an hour of cardio every day but now ,He makes me to the weight so I don’t know if doing weights are more effective than the cardio Im loosing my mind on this.

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    You burn fat when you consume fewer calories than your body needs to maintain weight. Neither cardio nor weight training default to burning fat...if it did, people who exercise regularly and maintain would just wither away. Cardio is good for your cardiovascular health. Weigh training is important for maintaining and building lean mass and bone density among other things.
  • Cutemesoon
    Cutemesoon Posts: 2,646 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    You burn fat when you consume fewer calories than your body needs to maintain weight. Neither cardio nor weight training default to burning fat...if it did, people who exercise regularly and maintain would just wither away. Cardio is good for your cardiovascular health. Weigh training is important for maintaining and building lean mass and bone density among other things.

    What he said. I recommend doing both tho.
  • CharlieBeansmomTracey
    CharlieBeansmomTracey Posts: 7,682 Member
    hoofman04 wrote: »
    Keto and cardio

    any way of eating as long as you are in a deficit means fat loss. otherwise I would have never lost any fat because I cant do keto
  • Carry_That_Weight
    Carry_That_Weight Posts: 27 Member
    Assuming you're keeping an energy deficit:

    In the short-term, cardio. I can easily burn a thousand or more calories on a long bike ride, a substantial fraction of which will came from fat oxidation. It's technically possible, thought unlikely you'll hit that same burn with weight training.

    In the long-term, likely weight training. Muscle uses far more energy at rest than fat does, so if you increase your muscle mass through resistance training, you'll be burning more calories 24/7. Additionally, you improve your nutrient partitioning (how much energy you use from fat versus from carbohydrate) with improved body composition, so for the same energy expenditure you'll generally use more fat.

    Anecdotally, when I was a flabby 180 lbs many years ago, I worked out my BMR to be around 1400 cals/day. Now, at a fairly muscular 140 lbs, my BMR is around 1800 cals/day. If I hadn't put on a decent amount of muscle, I couldn't have gotten substantially smaller and still increased my resting energy expenditure.

    Pretty cool, but the results require patience and consistency. Cardio is still a great tool for fat loss, but you should find a form you enjoy. If you hate the treadmill, walk/run outside, or take up biking, or swimming, or hiking, jump rope, martial arts, etc. It should be something you like to do.
  • JBApplebee
    JBApplebee Posts: 481 Member
    To give you a simple answer I would say weight training. With cardio you burn fat and also muscle. With weights you burn fat and build muscle.

    You only burn muscle during cardio if you aren't consuming enough protein.
  • Gauti2017
    Gauti2017 Posts: 5 Member
    edited May 2018
    Thank you guys for the reply. I will try to ration both of em
  • h1udd
    h1udd Posts: 623 Member
    do both .... anything less and you are wasting an opportunity
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