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Originally Posted by Leigh P.  Cardio is not the best way to lose fat, period. Best way to lose fat? Clean diet in a healthy caloric deficit. Diet is the most important aspect to any goal be it fat loss, muscle gain, athletic endurance and so forth. You really have a problem agreeing with me on that? I don't think so, I think you just got your fresh at home mail cert (I recognize that methods of HIIT/Plyometrics uses and steady state cardio, what was it IFPA or AFPA?) and want to try and powerhouse your way against my statements.
We are talking about fat loss here and maximizing that fat loss. A girl this size and who has been over training has to do some muscle repair. Resistance training is going to be key to achieving her goal. Did I say cardio wasn't important at all, forget it don't use it ever? No. I said cardio is not the best way to lose fat. |
[Edit - Rude Comment] the best way to lose
fat is to combine
diet and exercise. exercise will maximize the
body's ability to burn
fat, among other things. i don't even recommend
HIIT as a primary way to burn
fat.
HIIT will increase your VO2 max, but then you'd have to decrease your target
heart rate to about 65% to increase
fat burn.
do you even know what aerobic and
anaerobic energy means?
fat is one source of
energy. it has 9
calories per gram. it is an aerobic
energy source (just like certain blood glucose), meaning it cannot be used unless oxygen is present. to speed up this process, you need to do something aerobically. why do you think you breathe hard during exercise? the mitochondria in your muscle cells are screaming for oxygen to keep up with the
energy demands of the muscles.
