1010: The Best Cardio to Burn Fat

Cardio is not best for burning fat. I think weight training is best for burning fat and then you use cardio for the overall health benefits.

Let your metabolism do the calorie burning for, do cardio for the health benefits, and boost your metabolism with resistance training

I recommend cardio to everybody, including people who want to bulk...even people who want to gain muscle and gain size. Cardio has some benefits because it just makes you healthier and a healthier body is going to do everything better.

If I were to break down a routine for the average person...it would be 70-80 percent resistance training, 15% cardio, and 5% stretching or mobility work

When we're at rest, our body is burning about 2 kcals per minute (like during sleep). During a walk - it ups to 4 kcals/minute. Compare this to HIIT cardio which burns 8-10 kcals/minute.

A lot of these cardio machine manufacturers actually lie, by the way, on telling you how many calories that you're burning

In order to lose body fat, you have to consume less calories than you're burning or stated differently, you have to burn more calories than you're taking in

Cardio utilizes aerobic energy, which means that you'e using oxygen to produce the type of energy that you need. Resistance training is anaerobic - you're burning energy that does not require oxygen.

Steady state, low intensity cardio can facilitate muscle recovery

If you are sending a signal to the body that you're going to do cardio every single day, and you're not doing very much weight training in comparison to how much cardio you're doing, you're telling the body, 'Hey, we need to be able to travel over long distances so we don't need to have all this big bulky muscle. Get rid of it so we can become more efficient at what we're doing.'

One of the best ways to speed up your metabolism is by building muscle through resistance training

High intensity cardio (HIIT) burns more calories in less time compared to low intensity (LISS) cardio, and preserves muscle better

Your body stores body fat as a way of storing energy in case you're not able to consume enough energy to survive

The reason your metabolism slows down after a continued period of weight loss/cardio

Cardio is strength training for the heart

I think cardiovascular activity has a place in everybody's routine for health