 Hey everybody, I'm Lance Coyke. Today, we're gonna ask the question does cardio burn fat better than lifting weights? So short answer is yes Long answer is it might not be enough to get you the body that you want though So the purpose of lifting weights is to keep your muscle around Muscle is generally what gives us shape. It's what lifts our skin. It's what gives you that toned look It's what you know, if you're if you're really serious about it. It makes you look super strong Though that's hard to come by Muscle is generally what gives people the desired look That they're they're kind of looking for if you're just looking to be a rail thin I don't know how much I can help you You pretty much just need to stop eating and stop exercising And I wouldn't really say that's a healthy way to live your life. So it's not recommended You do however Want to keep activity levels up? Okay, so if I am going to Lift weights even two or three times a week, right? That will help me maintain a level of Muscle that gives me a little bit of shape Okay, and then from there We can start to think about energy balance. We can start to think about how much energy am I taking in how much am I? outputting okay so You can lose weight by just eating less right, but it doesn't always give you the body that you're looking for That's where the weight training comes in So I like to start people with weight training because I think you see a lot a Lot of progress from that especially if you keep your rest periods kind of short it gives you that cardiovascular jolt and it kind of like does two things at once right now and To a certain extent you can't do both things at once you can't get cardiovascular gains while getting muscle weight training gains But when you're early on and you're just starting to work out. It's great What I think most people need to focus on is that diet that intake and so if you're trying to lose weight You need to clean up your diet simple as that you need to maybe eat a little bit less And you probably need to eat things that are much lower calorie and higher value of nutrition, right? They have more vitamins and minerals and less in general carbs and fats You know the other thing that people need to do is up their protein intake Especially if they've started to weight lift because that proteins what's gonna keep the muscle around and give you that look that you're looking for Okay Now to get back to the question does cardio burn fat better than lifting weights? Yes, kind of so when I work out at a level that you know allows me to still keep talking while I'm working out We would consider that aerobic exercise and when I work out at that level I don't need to produce energy at the same rate as something like weight training where if I keep lifting this You know hundred eighty five pound barbell on my bench press eventually. I'm gonna have to stop You know, I might be able to get almost 20 reps or something like that, but Eventually you're gonna stop and it's not gonna take very long Whereas if I you know if you go jogging you can generally do that a lot longer or if you go for a brisk walk You can do that a lot longer When that rate of energy development is lower I can use slower Processes in the body slower cellular metabolic processes in the body to develop my energy to make usable energy for my muscles so when my intensity is lower, but I keep my my Duration of exercise pretty still and maybe extend it out then I can start to mobilize Fat stores a little bit more Okay, and this is especially true as I you know as it gets longer and longer and longer out for a you know I've given workout given period of exercise So yes You do burn a little bit of fat more if you're doing aerobic exercise really simple aerobic exercise Not high-intensity interval training kinds of exercise the caveat is when I do you know, I'm doing my high-intensity interval exercise and yes That is not really burning that much fat Because I need to produce that energy very very quickly, but Half of high-intensity interval training is when you're done so there's this mechanism called Epoch exercise post Oxygen consumption something like that So once I'm done my body still has to kind of recover It still has to get everything back to normal so that you feel like a human again What it's doing there is your heart rate stays elevated you keep your respiratory rate stays elevated and Sometimes if you worked out really intensely maybe for a shorter period of time It takes your body about as long to recover from it as it did to do it So during that period, I'm much more aerobic So I still get these spikes in aerobic activity and therefore in that kind of fat burning activity So It's not necessarily that one type of exercise is better than others weight training itself It's probably not gonna burn that much fat No, but most of your day is aerobic because most of your day is not pushed at the the brink of physical exertion This secret generally is this energy balance thing am I in taking a little bit less than I'm expending So I can either intake less or I can run all day to exit to output a little bit more Or I can do some combination of the two of those things But in general if I'm gonna lose weight if I'm gonna burn that fat I need to look at that energy balance. It's not necessarily that I need to do the right type of exercise The simple answer the the logistically more optimal answer is do whatever type of activity makes you happy and Don't eat like a slob