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Is weightlifting better to burn fat than cardio?

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Question added by Lina Samer , Digital Media Graphic Designer , iDirection
Date Posted: 2018/01/23

Divided Sports Exercises into two parts: 

 (cardio) which increase the speed of heart rate movements force, explained that the cardio helps in fat burning by walk fast, and use the treadmill, swimming, plant and sports electrical, in addition to sports the zumba, and the aerobics. All of these sports contribute to raise the heart rate and burn fat.

 

The movements of strength lies in physical movements that increase the proportion of muscle and improve the body shape and enable the loss of fat. The metabolism strengthens through the muscle, and in this way we can know the most appropriate for us.

 

Since cardio exercises can burn muscle tissue and burn calories, such as running for long periods of time, all sports activities have pros and cons, so you should consult with sports experts at the best sports activity for your goal. When it comes to comparing cardio exercises and Exercises weight lifting, the combination of them will be the best to burn fat in the body.

 

The practice of sport exercise weight lifting in fat loss, as the exercises force and weight lifting is not a very effective burn calories.

 

In the end, the combination of both cardio exercises and weight lifting exercises is to gain more muscle and burn calories. Cardio exercises are a great way to stimulate muscle growth and increase fitness levels, as well as losing fat and losing weight along with other health benefits.

 

Asif Ahmad
by Asif Ahmad , Professor , PMAS-Arid Agriculture University

A few years ago researchers from Georgia Southern University recruited 14 experienced lifters and had them do two whole-body workouts consisting of 9 basic exercises. They did two sets of each exercise while resting one minute between sets.

For their first workout, they used weights that were 45% of their 8RM (in other words, they used a weight that was 45% of the weight they could lift 8 times). They ended up doing sets of 15 reps (a.k.a. Higher reps most uneducated lifters resort too). For their second workout, they used a weight that was 85% of their 8RM and ended up doing approximately 8 reps.

It turned out that both exercise sessions burned the same amount of energy (calories). However, the higher intensity workouts (85% of 8RM) caused the trainees' hearts to beat faster and their lactic acid concentration to rise more than the lighter-weight workouts.

Furthermore, there was a significant difference in EPOC:

  • Twenty minutes after the workout, the heavy weights group exhibited almost double the EPOC of the light weights group.
  • Forty-five to sixty minutes after the workout, the EPOC of the heavy weights group was more than twice the EPOC of the light weights group.
  • And 105-120 minutes after the workout, the EPOC of the heavy weights group was about three times the EPOC of the light weights group.

 

Pedro Agbuya Abustan
by Pedro Agbuya Abustan , Manager / fitness instrutor / Personal traine , Aljafen sports club

weightlifting not to burn the fat? The proper way to burn fat doing jogging for 15 minutes this for condition of hurt & endurance of stamina it takes a month to use some of gadgets? This is the fastest burn fat jogging 

Fabio Arditi
by Fabio Arditi , Chartered Psychologist PhD , Various

Dear Ms. Lina and Ms. Thurayya, again many thanks for your invitation to participate in your stimulating debates. However I am definitely out of this topic because of (unlimited) age and (limited) experience :) !

I have anyway appreciated this reading.

So thanks to Dalal Alharbi and Asif Ahmad for their valuable comments.

Ashraf E. Mahmoud (PhD)
by Ashraf E. Mahmoud (PhD) , University Lecturer, Freelancer Consultant and Trainer for Int'l Business & Banking TF. , FreeLancer

Thanks for invitation,

Agree with the reply of our colleague Dalal El Harbi.

Ahmad  AlMaghariz
by Ahmad AlMaghariz , مترجم , Knowledge Point

I am not expert in this field ...but I prefer exercising to do that

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