For most people who are working actively to lose weight, diet and exercise play a crucial role in weight loss—at least in those beginning and middle stages. Many people, however, wonder which types of exercise, exactly, will be most effective at helping them shed excess weight. Here is a look at two types of exercise—weight lifting and cardio—and at how both, when combined, can help you kick start your weight loss journey.
Weight lifting
Weight lifting helps you lose weight in a number of ways. Because weight lifting increases your muscle mass, it speeds up your metabolism of fat; or in other words, it makes your body more efficient at burning calories. To understand this, it helps to picture yourself as a car and your muscle mass as the engine. The larger the engine (your muscle mass) is in proportion to the frame (your frame), the more efficient of a machine the car (you) will become. As you increase your muscle mass through weight lifting, your muscles will actually take in more calories in order to maintain themselves. And when your muscles are taking in more calories, that leaves fewer calories lying around to turn into fat. Overall, this means that when you practice weight lifting regularly, your body is constantly burning fat and becoming more toned.
Cardio
Cardio, meanwhile, works a little differently. Anytime you engage in cardio, be it through running, speed walking, bicycling, rowing, or an aerobics class, you raise your heart rate and in turn breathe harder, sweat more, and burn more calories. Cardio, in particular, is very efficient at creating a calorie deficit in the body because it requires many, many calories from the body. This calorie deficit is important because when paired with proper diet and portion sizes, your body will lose fat. When you burn more calories than you consume in a day, you lose weight. Just remember that cardio alone can’t shed all your fat.
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