What Beats Cardio in Fat Loss?

Remember days when your thigh slimming workout meant sweating in aerobics class, running on a treadmill or clocking up miles on a stepper, while weight lifting area was reserved strictly for ‘boys’? In those days you trainer would tell you that if you truly want to attack fat in you thigh and butt area you need to do at least 30-40 min of moderately-paced exercise on stepper, treadmill or other cardio machine at least 3-5 times per week, but more is of course better.

If you are ‘workout rusted’ and haven’t been following fitness trends in recent years, this article will show (or remind) you why weight lifting workout routine is so much more efficient in burning fat from your thighs then cardio.

While cardio exercise has many benefits, there’s more efficient way to burn fat faster and achieve long lasting health and fitness results. Got you interested?

The key to fast fat loss is adding lean muscle to your body. This will rev up your metabolism, speed up calorie burn and turn your body into fat burning machine. How come?

Muscles are the highest consumer of energy in your body. The more muscle you have the higher is consumption of calories. So, when you start adding lean muscles through proper resistance training, you will need to feed the new muscle. By eating the right amount of calories to maintain your current bodyweight and by increasing the biggest consumer of energy, you will create calorie deficit in your body.

In addition to calorie burn during the resistance training, the calories burned at rest will also increase, not to even mention calories used in the recovery phase. The muscle is metabolically speaking the hardest tissue in the body. It requires the highest amount of energy to keep active, and that is why our bodies devours it first in times of starvation, and why it burns more calories at rest.

This calorie deficit combined with repair and growth process will call upon your stored body fat for energy.

65% of muscles of your body are in your lower body with the biggest group being leg muscles. By focusing on your lower body exercises, particularly thighs, you will not only get toned and well shaped thighs; but also speed up fat loss process for your whole body. Adding lean muscle to the biggest muscle group will increase the need for energy, and the constant need for energy burns your supply, making fat loss a breeze.