Do you have to lose some weight first before building your body with weights?

[Anonymous]

I want to lose 16 pounds should I do cardio first then start weights when I've lost half the weight or do both now?

[Quackthulu2]

You don’t strictly have to. And a lot of it depends on your body type and your goals. It’s not very efficient to try and burn fat while building muscle at the same time. Because to burn fat you need to keep yourself calorie deficient, to build muscle you need a calorie surplus. That’s why people who get really into it will alternate between bulking and cutting. But 16 pounds isn’t THAT much, and I doubt you are going for that body builder physique anyways.

I would suggest push-ups, crunches, and running. Pull-ups too if you can manage. Those are all things you can do at home with little to no equipment, that will give you a pretty well rounded workout. And keep track of what you eat. There are calorie counter apps for free that can help track your macronutrients as well as caloric goals to match the weight you want to gain/loose over a given period of time.

[Asker]

What if I do 20 minutes high impact cardio just for fitness and I am on a calorie deficit too. Then 15 minutes hip thrusts, squats fire hydrants etc

[Quackthulu2]

Sounds like a reasonable plan. I’m guessing you are trying to focus more on your core. I would also suggest figuring out your BMR if you haven’t yet. It’s basically the minimum amount of calories you need for your body to function properly. Not really good to drop below that.

[Asker]

Its 1200 calories a day. Using myfitness pal

[Asker]

I dont know what bmr is but what I meant was my recommended calories intake is 1200 to lose weight.

[Quackthulu2]

Lol, same app I use. I just always double check. Just keep in mind that the more exercise you are doing, the more calories your body will use so that number can change.

Basal Metabolic Rate, you can figure yours online. I can't post a link till level 3.

[DribbleGodCurt]

Depends on where you wanna lose weight, stomach is the hardest and requires a lot of cardio then after you burn the fat off do Russian twists, situps, crunches and etc. If you wanna lose fat on your arms lift light weights it sounds weird but repetitive movement in your arms causes fat loss same way with legs I think but they're more complicated, I hope this helps!

[Asker]

I thought you can't spot fat loss it just comes off everywhere or wherever you gained last?

[DribbleGodCurt]

Nope it kinda depends

[Asker]

Scientific studies have debunked it.

[DribbleGodCurt]

You can't spot certain parts of the body for weight lose being the stomach and legs, but you can for sure lose weight on your arms or cut your muscle using little weights

[Wise4myage]

That makes sense to me. Talk to a trainer too though.

[wannabeCuck]

I did later on i got six packs

[Asker]

So should I lose the weight first with cardio then do weights?

[wannabeCuck]

Um do both i usually do 30 mins weights everyday 15 mins of sprinting ( for u i d recommend 2 km of running in 15 mins ) then i skip for 15 mins. I eat 200 cals deficiet and burn 20p cal in cardio daily. Which creates my daily cal defieciet of 400 calories

[wannabeCuck]

Id say do both. But life weights first. And later do steady state cardio. Be it skipping cross channel or walking make sure u burn at least 200 calories with cardio and eat 200 less calories less then mentainace. Running could be lung inte sive u could use cross channel machine or skipping if u could.

[In_Trance]

No you don't