weight training good for burning fat

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do i have to do weight training in order to burn fat? i do love my cardio but i havent a clue were to start with weights there always seesm to be some many excercises to do and to be honest i wouldnt no were to start!
 
weight training is gonna make your body hold on to lean muscle while you have a calorie deficit. cardio isn't for shedding fat...proper eating does that. do cardio for the heart and lung workout, 20-30 mins per session 3 sessions a week. Look into interval cardio.

and pick up some heavy weights. lots of 'getting started with weights' posts here.
 
While cardio alone won't make you lose weight, cardio coupled with a proper diet is THE way to lose weight. Though as Malkore rightly said, without a certain amount of weight training you risk losing muscle as well as fat.
 
I like to call it a holy trinity: diet, cardio, and resistence training. you need the right balance of all three to maximize your fat loss, or muscle gain, or whatever your goals are.
to a large degree, diet is the biggest side. if diet absolutely sucks, cardio and weight training suffer, both in performance, and the results you get for the effort put forward. on an excellent diet, even sub par cardio and weight workouts will still get you some decent results.

and I do like to de-emphasize cardio, mainly to get it out of people's heads that its their salvation. if you do the cardio like you wanna work your heart properly, you'll get the fat loss benefits....and you won't have to spend 60 mins a day running either. :)
 
he didnt say he was on a calorific deficet.
as malkore said weights will hold onto muscle but you didnt say if you wanted to or not.
if all you want to do is lose fat that is possible with just cardio, if you use more cals through cardio and other activitys in a day ,than you eat you will lose fat,but you might also lose some muscle.
 
You can lose fat by diet alone, but you want to maintain muscle mass while losing the fat, right?

Well, resistance training is the way to go.
 
If all you do is diet and cardio to loose the fat, then your going to struggle your whole life.

Lifting weights, rips the muscles which then need to heal. This takes energy.

So even if you dont want big muscles, weight training will help you burn calories through the day and night.
 
i want to burn fat but i want to tone down to to Slim my shape i just dont want to do 20 different things to get it like some books i have read suggest i would like something simple and not to time consuming as i work shifts.
im doing 30-50 mins running or cardio of some form 3-4 x a week and 3 sets of 15 squats on days in between,nothing else to be honest.
 
well, squats are better than nothing, but your routine does lead a lot to be desired.

but it all depends on how much of a commitment you wanna make to your goals.
 
squats, deadlifts, presses, rows...pullups/chinups or pulldowns if not

do you have experience lifting? or are you just starting out for the first time?
 
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