PSA:
If your goal is to lose fat and build a lean, strong physique you should not be running.
At least not often.
It may be an unpopular opinion but here are the facts:
If your goal is to lose fat and build a lean, strong physique you should not be running.
At least not often.
It may be an unpopular opinion but here are the facts:
1. You’re risking injury
Due to the high impact of running – especially on hard, concrete roads – you’re more than likely to get injured at some point especially if you are overweight and de-conditioned
Injured = unable to train and therefore loss of momentum and progress.
Due to the high impact of running – especially on hard, concrete roads – you’re more than likely to get injured at some point especially if you are overweight and de-conditioned
Injured = unable to train and therefore loss of momentum and progress.
2. You’re using up precious recovery capacity
Running is a high-impact, high-intensity activity that taxes your body hard.
Because of this, your body is forced to spend energy on recovery afterward… energy that can no longer be spent on recovering from your strength workouts.
Running is a high-impact, high-intensity activity that taxes your body hard.
Because of this, your body is forced to spend energy on recovery afterward… energy that can no longer be spent on recovering from your strength workouts.
What this means is that your strength workouts start to feel more difficult, you’re not able to go as hard and you don't make progress as quickly as you could be.
Frustrating.
Frustrating.
3. Running doesn't build a strong, jacked body
Sure, your cardio will improve. As will your wellbeing and health.
But you also want to build muscle and get stronger -and purely running isn't going to achieve that.
Sure, your cardio will improve. As will your wellbeing and health.
But you also want to build muscle and get stronger -and purely running isn't going to achieve that.
Strength training is more optimal for fat loss because:
1. It ensures the maximum amount of weight-loss comes from body fat. Not muscle.
2. It's better at increasing your metabolism.
3: It builds a lean, proportioned body. A v-shaped back is not built on a treadmill.
1. It ensures the maximum amount of weight-loss comes from body fat. Not muscle.
2. It's better at increasing your metabolism.
3: It builds a lean, proportioned body. A v-shaped back is not built on a treadmill.
4. Running makes you hungry
In my 12 years working with me to help them transform their body, this has been a recurring theme.
Yes, you will burn calories while running but it also increase hunger a LOT more than walking does.
In my 12 years working with me to help them transform their body, this has been a recurring theme.
Yes, you will burn calories while running but it also increase hunger a LOT more than walking does.
Thus making it far more likely that you’ll go overboard with calories and stop losing fat (you may even put on weight.)
So if running often isn't ideal, what kind of cardio should you do alongside your strength training?
So if running often isn't ideal, what kind of cardio should you do alongside your strength training?
Walking and cycling are great.
Low-impact, fat burning and won’t increase hunger as much as running (must be steady-state on the bike.)
Try walking 10,000 steps/day for a month and see how the pounds start to fall.
Combine this with strength training and you're onto a winner.
Low-impact, fat burning and won’t increase hunger as much as running (must be steady-state on the bike.)
Try walking 10,000 steps/day for a month and see how the pounds start to fall.
Combine this with strength training and you're onto a winner.
This is not to say running is a waste of time - if you want to do it on top of your strength program, you can
However, you don't NEED to do it to lose body-fat
Instead:
Focus on diet and walking to create a calorie-deficit
Use strength training to build and maintain muscle
However, you don't NEED to do it to lose body-fat
Instead:
Focus on diet and walking to create a calorie-deficit
Use strength training to build and maintain muscle
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