Tuesday, 06 September 2011
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New Study Reveals the Best Way to Lose Belly Fat
A brand new 8-month study has revealed the best way to get rid of that extra belly fat.
Researchers from Duke University studied 196 overweight and sedentary adults between the ages of 18 to 70. The study looked compared the effectiveness of aerobic exercise such as jogging, resistance training with weights, or a combination of the two. At the end of the 8 months, they found that aerobic exercise (aka jogging) burned 67% more calories than resistance training.
Lead author and exercise physiologist Cris Slentz said:
"Resistance training is great for improving strength and increasing lean body mass, but if you are overweight, which two-thirds of the population is, and you want to lose belly fat, aerobic exercise is the better choice because it burns more calories."
The researchers also found that resistance training combined with aerobic yield issued the same results.
What do you think of the study? Do you find jogging helps you tone up?
[FitPerez]
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He (she?) says that it's more effective because it burns more calories, so of course it's going to be more effective getting rid of belly fat. But isn't it really impossible to lose weight in only specific spots? You can get toned, and be naturally thinner there, but I didn't think it was possible to spot-train.
This is why some idiots think science is useless. Studies wasting time/money/resources to tell you the obvious.
A recent study found that eating less food made you lose weight. I was the leader of the study. I hope I get that one million dollar grant from the government that I was promised.
this is not new information at all. you need to have both aerobic and resistance training for optimal fitness, but you need more cardio than anything.
Burning more calories does not always equal less belly fat. Certainly, it could. But, it could burn off your thighs instead of your stomach. Whereas, strength training can target a specific area. Not necessarily burn fat there but improve the muscle tone which in tale, will look better and give your skin and fat a better surface to lay on.
End of the story. I'm a huge fan of both. My fat has been consistently coming off my thighs before my stomach but when it decides to come off the muscle is already there waiting to say hello.
Having more muscle will improve your resting metabolic rate, in other words, burn calories. Given that I don't eat a lot strength training burns more than enough calories for me and cardio would burn too many to retain any significant muscle mass. But, a couple times a week I do a cardio session and just remind myself to eat a little more.
I'm with the other Dan. I found that eating smaller portions, combined with getting a physical job and doing a lot of cycling (around 800 calories an hour for vigorous cycling on a real bike, not one at the gym that doesn't require you to keep your balance) with a little swimming thrown in and I'm down almost 50 lbs. after 21 months and back within my ideal weight (if at the top end) and still losing. In pretty good physical shape, too. My wife was just admiring my new biceps last night. It's funny, I've lost all but my belly fat and most of it has gone, too. @TheTheologiansCafe@xanga - Dan, you better count me in on some of that grant money, too.
aerobic is great for burning fat. but anaerobic (resistance training) is important, too! so you can be strong!
@MoonFaeEyryan@xanga - It's not a waste of time, considering nowadays a lot of people seem to think that strength training is more effective than aerobic exercise. The study proves using numbers (which people usually deem necessary in order for something to be believable) that if you want to lose weight then aerobic exercise IS in fact more effective than strength training.
@Murphy_Rants@xanga - I read an article somewhere (or actually a couple, and heard it from others) that said that having more muscle mass doesn't increase your BMR as much as people think it does. Being strong is definitely good for you and people should strength-train, but I don't think muscle does much in terms of extra calories burned, especially not as much as we'd like it to.
my boobs are too big to jog
What I had heard before, which this study doesn't really seem to address, is that strength training increases metabolism (muscle burns more calories than fat), so while the actual aerobic activity may burn more calories than strength training, the strength training will do more for increasing your metabolism once the activity has ended.
Running is an incredible exercise!
With each step you put your body through 1 G lifting the body into the air and then 1 G again when you land back on the ground.
This is great for toning the entire body.
The the aerobic benefits are astonishing especially when you run at threshold.
@loribruehle@xanga - This is true. Except everyone is too focused on quick results.
any kind of movement helps me and if i'm working out and i do a lot of cardio, i find myself a little toner each day and drinking lots of water.
really? the more calories burned the more fat your loose. wow
Making my I can't believe it's not butter, face "REALLY?" /O.o\ I never would have guessed it
tell me something I dont know :P
If you're overweight, do cardio/aerobic to drop to healthy weight, try working in some basic resistance training in addition to the aerobic. Once you get to a healthy weight, bump up the amount of resistance training to tone, as well as a little cardio. Definitely do both, but focus on cardio if you're overweight and resistance if you want to tone up. Seems so obvious!