Combine Cardio and Weight Training

Cardiovascular activity combined with weight training will result in much more fat loss than with cardio alone.  It’s true.  Cardio will raise your muscle metabolism during the activity and for a short time afterwards.  And that’s great.  But weight training ups the ante by raising your muscle metabolism during the exercise and for a much longer time after the session has ended. 

Weight training creates resistance on the muscles and the tissue becomes leaner and longer during the exercise.  However, the actual muscle development  occurs  during the rest period following your weight training.  So during the next 24 hours when you are “resting”, you should perform cardiovascular activities. 

When you combine the weight training exercises followed by cardiovascular exercise you stress your muscles in a complementary way that will indeed  increase your total fat burning effect.