Want to burn calories, improve your cardiovascular health and also build muscle? It’s been a long standing debate which is better to burn calories: cardio or strength training? While cardio burns more calories, lifting weights can burn calories up to 72 hours post-workout. Plus, it creates muscle, which helps speed up your metabolic rate and burn fat. This six-minute workout combines the two, so you can lose weight and burn fat – all you’re going to need is a pair of dumbbells.
However, as well as helping us burn lots of calories, these two styles of training also have many other benefits. Incorporating cardio into our fitness routines is also important for keeping our heart healthy and reducing our risk of conditions such as heart disease and high blood pressure. Whereas, according to British Weight Lifting, lifting weights is also key to increasing our metabolism, controlling our blood sugar levels and increasing bone density. Combining the two together is therefore not only the perfect combination to losing weight healthily, but also keeping our bodies functioning healthily too.
