You don’t need cardio to lose fat. Doing cardio to get lean is like having a kid to save a marriage. Usually backfires worse than Uncle Buck’s station wagon (if you’re post-millennial, you’ll have to look that one up). Your body is a natural fat-burning machine. The reason you aren’t lean even despite being a [...]
You don’t need cardio to lose fat. Doing cardio to get lean is like having a kid to save a marriage. Usually backfires worse than Uncle Buck’s station wagon (if you’re post-millennial, you’ll have to look that one up). Your body is a natural fat-burning machine. The reason you aren’t lean even despite being a physiological pyromaniac is because you’re energetic income is higher than your energetic expenses. In other words, you’re an enthusiastic eater. Starve yourself. You’ll lose fat eventually. You shouldn’t actually starve yourself, but the point remains: diet does the denting. Adding cardio can help, but not by as much as everyone expects. When you finish a cardio session and feel your heartbeat behind your eyes, it’s natural to assume you just chewed through a massive wad of fat. As if whatever crumb was clinging to your abs surely melted, and a six-pack is now seconds away. In reality? Casual cardio barely kills off the calories inside one of those insect-sized boxes of raisins. Never mind the cupcakes, chips, and “reward food” you start morally bargaining for the moment you begin exercising.