Ways to lose pounds fast
What is the best way to lose body fat?
I'm not overweight at all and I'm kinda muscular but I still have body fat covering my muscles so there isn't much tone.I do weightlifiting and just started doing cardio on a treadclimber everyday.I just need tips to whether to do cardio before or after weights, for how long and on what body parts does the body fat first and last go away. Also, is it true that doing too much cardio will make the body use muscle for energy and start storing more fat?
Public Comments
- NO it is not true. Maybe instead of lifting to increase the size of your muscles (lifting higher weight, with lower reps), lift with a lower weight with more reps. Also instead of stairsteppers, try running or stairs (cardio exercises).
- The only time cardio will consume muscle is if you're on a starvation diet, or your workout is so long (more than a couple hours) that you've gone through your glycogen stores. Runners and cyclists know this as "Bonk". Otherwise, free fatty acids and carbohydrates are the predominant fuel. Contrary to causing fat storage, endurance athletes actually become more efficient at using fat as fuel. Body fat gets used more or less evenly. I suspect that the reason many lifters think cardio burns muscle is that very few are really lean, so they think they're losing muscle when the overlaying fat is stripped away. Just like a steak looks smaller when you trim away the fat.
