Strength or Cardio–If you had to choose one…?

Let’s say that you’ve been inactive and you’ve decided to ease in to some sort of exercise only two days a week..

Now..

Would you choose to spend these two sessions performing cardio like running on the treadmill??

Or would you do some sort or strength training with higher reps??

Alwyn Cosgrove has a good article titled Strength or Cardio? where he insists that if you had to choose one, do the strength FIRST–meaning if you only have two days do strength, and then add cardio later if you choose to work out more frequently.

His point is that if you want to lose weight, you have to burn Calories and elevate your metabolism. And the easiest way to do that is through strength training.

He says that the best way to initially burn Calories is to make your muscles active–and the best way to elevate your metabolism is to gain MORE muscle, which will require you to burn even more Calories.

A simple concept, but it won’t do any good unless you apply it. So go do some lifting!!!

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