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Cardio Plus Weights: Concurrent Training Loses Fat Like Cardio and Builds Muscle Like Lifting - the Best of Both, Not a Compromise

3 days ago
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Updated: 2 days ago

The fear that cardio 'kills your gains' has kept a generation of lifters off the treadmill, while the belief that weights are useless for fat loss has kept dieters out of the weight room. Both worries can now be checked against a large body of evidence on concurrent training - doing both in the same programme - and the answer is reassuring: rather than the two interfering with each other, combining them gives you most of what each does alone. For someone trying to lose fat while keeping muscle, which is the goal of most people who diet, that makes concurrent training the default rather than a compromise.

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