Adding Weights to Your Cardio: Why the Hybrid Approach Beats Endurance Training Alone for Fat Loss
4 days ago
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Updated: 3 days ago
Most people who set out to lose fat start with cardio, and most of them stop there. The reasoning feels sound: running burns more calories per hour than a set of squats, so running should shift more fat. But that reasoning treats fat loss as a single-session arithmetic problem, and the body does not work that way. When researchers compare people doing endurance work alone against people doing endurance work plus weights, the hybrid group does not merely hold its own - it tends to come out ahead on the fat measures that matter, while keeping the muscle that endurance training alone can quietly erode.
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