Training for Fat Loss
An important mistake that a lot of people make is that they often replace workouts with cardio sessions. This is not the way to effectively keep muscle and burn fat. In fact, you should do the antithesis.
While we may burn more calories for the duration of a workout doing cardio, we burn more calories, fat especially, throughout the course of a day by lifting weights. The reason for this is because after we workout our metabolism has been boosted for the remainder of the day. Do you ever wonder why you eat more after your workouts than before? This is why it is popular for people to lift weights early in the morning, it means they will ultimately burn more for the course of their day.
Knowing this, it is probably a wise decision to increase the amount of weight lifting sessions that you perform during a week. However, don’t let that mean that you should overtrain your muscles. The best way to do this is to adopt a 5-7 day split. When I am bulking, I usually workout 3-4 days a week, but when I am cutting I increase it to 5-7 days a week. However, I work out each muscle the same amount of times during the course of a week for both strategies. I just spread it out to reap the benefits of an accelerated metabolism to help me burn fat.
Are you surprised that I haven’t spent hardly any time talking about actual cardio sessions? Good, because cardio is not as important as many believe when cutting fat. You could lose it just fine by having a well-structured diet and weight lifting program. However it is still a good idea to add some cardiovascular exercise.
Don’t start running 10 mph on the treadmill just yet though because some cardio is better than other forms.
