Weight Training vs. Cardio Training

Ah, the age-old debate of weight training vs. cardio.

Truthfully, I believe this should not be a debate. While similar, these are two very different methods of exercise which map to very different objectives. Because of this, it's important to be thoughtful about how you're training, and deploying your strategy in a way that links to your main desired objective or goal.

Minute for minute, cardio burns more calories than weightlifting. However, weight training will increase resting metabolism in a way that cardio does not

Weight training provides muscle mass growth, which equates to strength gain. Since muscle and strength are functions of eachother, the more you build, the stronger you become. The stronger you become, the better and more effective you become when weight training. The results of this combination are substantially better resting metabolic rates, a fuller and more defined aesthetic, and an easier every day life due to increased strength.

If you're wondering whether you should be performing cardio or weight training as a major component in your training program... the real answer should be both.

There are few cases when one dominates exclusively over the other. In these cases, it's usually due to a very specific athletic objective. For those of us who are NOT playing D1 college sports (or something similar), our best bet to get the body, energy, flexibility, aesthetics, speed and health that we want, we're going to have to put in both weight training AND cardio work.

Inside you'll hear many benefits and cons to exclusively performing one training method or the other, as well as some sample workouts for ways to incorporate both methods of training targeted towards very specific goals.

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