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Weights or CardioYou just arrived at the gym. You have 1 hour to do your workout, shower, change and eat. You are thinking about the best thing to do in about 35-40 minutes to maximize your calorie burn. What would you choose?Traditionally women usually chose to do cardio. They feel that they will work up a sweat and burn more calories. The opposite is true. Doing cardio for 30 minutes or so will burn about 200-300 calories maximum. Once you are off that cardio equipment your heart rate returns to it's normal state. Choosing weights instead will not only burn the calories during your workout but will also rev up your metabolism for the rest of the day. While you may have only burned 200-300 calories during your weight training session you will continue to burn calories the rest of the day. This translates to a higher fat burn overall. Try this: Get on any cardio for 5 minutes at a higher intensity. Make sure that you break a sweat during your warm up. This will set you up to burn more calories during your workout. Then hit the weights and do a weight circuit workout of high repetitions. For instance, do 20 squats and presses followed by 20 lunges with curls, followed by 20 push ups. You should aim to work multiple muscle groups per exercise. To really break a sweat you should squeeze in 2-3 minute cardio intervals between your weights. This will maximize your fat burn! |