Is Cardio the Best Exercise to Lose Fat Fast?
A lot of people and even fitness trainers are convinced that traditional cardio is the best exercise to lose fat fast. But if this is such a great fat burning exercise why do all the people who run on a treadmill five or seven days a week have almost the same body like last year. You need different results so you will have to do things different. Aerobic training burns a higher amount of fat during the workout than anaerobic training. But this doesn’t mean that aerobic training gives you a leaner body then anaerobic training. While doing a typical cardio workout your resting metabolic rate remains elevated for only one or two hours. But your RMR remains elevated for up to one to two hours following a strenuous anaerobic training. Doing too much excessive cardio can cause a loss of lean muscle mass, therefore decreasing your RMR. And the lower your RMR is the harder it is to lose any more body fat. At the same time it is easier to store body fat if you happen to overeat. Therefore to be
