Cardio vs Strength Training, Which is Faster for Weight Loss?

Dream - It must be acknowledged that exercise routines usually only appear when you want to lose or gain weight. The chosen type of exercise varies, ranging from running, swimming, cycling, to strength training, such as weightlifting, squats, and planks.

Each type of exercise has its own benefits and functions. Cardio exercises like running, swimming, and cycling aim to maintain heart health and burn calories.

Meanwhile, strength training aims to increase muscle mass while burning consumed calories. Although both are exercises, which one is better to do when you want to lose weight?

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Nutritionist and Lifestyle Enthusiast, Maria Eleonora revealed that cardio exercises for 1 hour can burn around 350-400 calories. Meanwhile, 1 hour of strength training only burns 250-300 calories.

Therefore, cardio exercises tend to burn more calories. However, strength training has a calorie-burning effect for about 38 hours after exercise.

So, your body can burn calories even without exercising for several hours after doing strength training. This means that calorie burning will be more than doing cardio exercises.

Maria also revealed that increasing muscle mass can burn more calories. So, strength training can burn more calories and prevent weight from easily going up or down.

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