Is it true that lifting weights and doing reps help you lose weight quicker?

[Anonymous]

Or burn fat quicker and even speed up your metabolism?

[MartinMarsh]

Yes, absolutely. When doing strength training, aka weight lifting, your body expends more calories as opposed to running on a treadmill or the elliptical. This is because your body is spending more energy to rebuild your muscles after you broke them down during the workout. Cardio only burns calories while you're actually doing the cardio. Weight lifting burns more calories all day and across multiple days.

Now then, muscle weighs more than fat. So you may not actually lose much weight, but you will look much, much better. The more muscles you have, the faster your metabolism. It won't jack up your metabolism insanely, but it does make it a little faster.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

There is no way lifting weights burns calories quicker than high intensity cardio. "Afterburn" is much smaller than sixpackshortcuts has manipulated people into believing. When running daily I use to eat a big mac meal + an extra big mac + a milkshake for dinner.. not to mention ate an insane amount of cupcakes and milk along with breakfast and lunch just try to keep weight. Try eating like that while lifting daily--- and you'll find yourself dirty bulking yourself to obesity.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

Here's a recent study showing what was always known before sixpackshortcuts leaked his distorted interpretation of EPOC into the broscience world...

Dec. 15 issue of the Journal of Applied Physiology.

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Which is that Resistance Training is best for building lean mass, Aerobic Training is best for burning fat. And doing both is best for decreasing bodyfat %.

[MartinMarsh]

Bro, do you even lif-...oh looks like you started. Kudos :D.

Look, we can talk about what burns calories faster all day long. At the end of the day, it comes down to only one thing. Calorie Deficit. If you are not at a calorie deficit, then kiss fat burning goodbye.

[MartinMarsh]

Furthermore, lifting heavy weights gives your body a reason to keep your muscles. Too much cardio will burn your muscles. Low intensity is as good if not even better than HIIT in terms of aesthetic results.

Yes, both cardio and weight lifting are important. But weighlifting is far more important. Just running your ass off isn't going to get you looking like this. That takes heavy lifting.

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[NotJustAnotherGuy]

I lift and I study. I believe it's important to have spiritual, physical and mental health. So yeah, I lift as portion of my fitness goals. With that said, the question was what burns fat faster. What I said was completely accurate, regardless of this new conversation you want to have on which is more important. But if I was to weigh in on it-- I'd say cardio is more important. It's better for your heart, and heart disease is one of the current leading causes of death.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

As for which is more important aesthetically-- it depends on your current condition. If you're overweight cardio is more important aesthetically-- because any muscle built will not be visible under the layers of fat and could even make you look fatter and more disproportionate. If you're underweight or healthy weight, lifting is more important aesthetically. Which is basically my answer posted below. They're both important for different reasons. But my only point is cardio burns fat faster.

[kheserthorpe]

If you're a total beginner, yes. Lifting heavy weights will trigger building muscle tissue, which increases your metabolism.

If you're not a beginner, and eating at a caloric deficit (which I assume you're doing since dieting), you probably won't gain much if any muscle, and won't increase your metabolism. You will, however, be holding on to the muscle you have more effectively then you would if you did cardio only or just dieted (in which case your body will happily burn up some muscle tissue to slow itself down). So its more something to offset downsides of dieting.

[NotJustAnotherGuy]

It won't burn fat quicker or speed up your metabolism by any significant degree. Cardio is still the king of weight loss. You can burn fat doing this, just not as quickly as doing cardio exercises like running or cycling.

So to answer your specific question does it "help you lose weight QUICKER"? No.

Does it help you burn fat? A little. Does it help you increase your metabolism? Not by a large enough degree to say yes. Does it help you decrease body fat %? Yes-- and this is the highlight of lifting weights for girls because it will help them decrease their body fat % (a little fat loss, a little muscle gain) which is more important aesthetically, and physically, than simply decreasing fat when you get nearer to having a slim body.

Hope this touches on all parts of your question. If you need to know anything else just let me know, I'll try my best to answer.

[TheGoodTheBadTheHOT]

Youre talking about a method of weight lifting called HIIT ( link ) which does assist with weight loss and simulated weight loss by increasing the tone and size of your muscles.

Regardless of gender, weight workouts should not be avoided

[martyfellow]

Yes, but it won't speed up your metabolism nearly as effectively as aerobics, or tennis, or other cardiovasular workouts. Weights will build muscle mass mostly, not speed up your metabolism so much.

[Anonymous]

They can help you build muscle.

The more muscle mass you have, the faster your basal metabolic rate will be, the more calories you will burn simply by existing.

[Anonymous]

any kind of working out will help you loose weight.

[Asker]

You either copied the answer from the other anonymous user,or you're just answering the same question twice.Either way...lame.

[Anonymous]

Any working out will lose weight