What do you do to lose weight? Cardio, resistance train, diet? What do you do to keep it off? A combination of cardio resistance training, and adopting a healthy approach to food is the ticket to a lean body. Cardio alone will increase your heart rate and burn calories, resulting in losing pounds. Dieting will help lose weight. However, neither cardio nor dieting will raise your metabolism to keep it off while being toned and fit.
Getting lean and keeping off the fat is a more long term approach to weight loss rather than watching the number on the scale go down only to come back up again. The best way to get lean is to resistance train; fast and hard; with some cardio added. Keep your metabolism up by resistance training which builds lean muscle. As opposed to fat, muscle is metabolically active. So the more lean muscle mass you have, the better your metabolism. You'll be burning more calories just by changing your body comp to include more muscle. And don't worry about building muscle like a man. They have lots more testosterone than women that accounts for their muscular look. If you've got limited time, cardio is not the best option. Long cardio sessions negatively impact the cortisol hormone, and impairs the ability to tone and shape. You'll end up "skinny fat". Urban dictionary defines skinny fat as " when someone is thin and looks great in clothes, but is all flabby underneath". Bottom line, train like an athlete to look like an athlete.
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