How does lifting weights and doing pushups and sit ups and stuff compare to areobic and aneorbic execercise?
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Strength training burns more calories. This is because cardio exercises raise your metabolism during the workout and shortly after (45 minutes or so), while with weight training, your body has to expend calories to repair and rebuild the muscles (which lasts about 48 hours).
Cardio is important, but doesn't burn nearly as many calories.
Lifting weights and doing situps/pullups are MUSCLE BUILDING activities. Areobic and Aneoribic activities are CARDIO work-outs. They help you stay in shape.
Aerobic burns more calories than lifting weights, but lifting weights also builds muscle which increases your metabolism so you burn more calories while at rest. A healthy combination of both and and really it becomes irrelevant which burns more calories because you will be a efficient calorie burning machine.
Well the first option can help you burn calories and build muscle mass faster but can often be
tiring and on some days you may
feel to fatigued to work out.
The second option is more of a daily thing that isn't
as fast but probably better overall.
lifting weights, doing pushups and situps is anerobic exercise. running and the like are aerobic. both burn a lot of calories. aerobic will continue to burn a few hours afterward, while lifting weights will burn up to a day or so afterward. its best to do a combo of both if you want to burn a lot of calories.
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