The Aerobic Myth?
For years, we’ve heard that the way to lose weight, get healthy, and basically improve every area of your life, is through cardio and aerobic exercises like jogging, biking, and the elliptical machine. But, conventional wisdom may be starting to change. It appears that weight training may be more important to weight and fat loss [...]
For years, we’ve heard that the way to lose weight, get healthy, and basically improve every area of your life, is through cardio and aerobic exercises like jogging, biking, and the elliptical machine. But, conventional wisdom may be starting to change. It appears that weight training may be more important to weight and fat loss than we think.
Consider this study, mentioned in a recent Men’s Health article. Dr. Jeff Volek divide a group of overweight people into three groups. With all groups on the same diet, one did no exercise, one did aerobic exercise 3x a week, and one did both the aerobics and weight training. The groups all lost about the same amount of weight over 12 weeks. However, the weight training group had the most success in losing fat and retaining muscle. This result has been confirmed in other studies.
It seems that the more we study, the more we realize that weight training may be the ultimate missing link. There’s a lot more to say on this topic, particularly, we’ll review what the father of the so-called American kettlebell movement has to say about the results of weight training and also look at what Dr. Al Sears has to say about cardio in the next couple of posts.
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