How is the amount of calories burnt debatable?? I have shown that more calories will be burnt by running/jogging.
it does not matter that it is debatable, as we have already established that we are not simply trying to create the biggest calorie deficit possible. If you wanted to do this, i suggest sprinting, up a hill, against the wind, whilst doing shoulders presses, for three hours.
Clearly, calorie use is related to effort.
but since you asked, it IS debatable, because weight lifting, unlike cardio, raises the resting metabolism by a significant amount for hours after you have finished the exercise (post-exercise calorie expenditure).
When weight training fat loss is a secondary factor, which is why people perform cardio to drop body fat.
people do cardio to drop fat, because it is easy to do, does not require any equipment or training, has a huge benefit to the cardiovascular system, but most of all because, in the past, the advice they had been given was to do cardio, and stay in "the zone".. i.e, they think it is the most efficient way of doing it.
And for the exact same reason, so many people fail in their fat loss attempts.
And surely people would want to burn 500ish calories with 30 mins of running, rather than 2 hours of weight training
even ignoring the post exercise calorie expenditure, i dont know if this is true. consider that 2 hours of weight training includes an hour and a half of sitting around, standing around, waiting, resting between sets, between exercises, it is not simply 120 minutes of pushing and pulling, if it was, the calorie debt would be through the roof.
Granted if you pack on muscle your body will obviously burn more calories (I have not disputed this), but packing on 10lbs of the stuff (which burns 130 calories per hour) takes a lot of effort and time.
this is true, but i have not even mentioned this benefit. since you have, simply adding 1 lb of muscle, which does not take a lot of effort and time, will burn (by your figure) 13 calories per hour, maybe not much, but over a week, that is 2184 calories extra being burned all the time, even whilst you sleep.
in addition, cardio produces significantly higher cortisol, and as a result, not only does cardio NOT build muscle, not only does it NOT maintain muscle, but it actively reduces it.
As for the link you have posted - I did not read it completely, but it does seem to backup what I was saying. That if you train at a lower intensity, for the same amount of work, your body will metabolise fat
yes its true, but it also says that the aim of exercise should not simply be to burn the biggest percentage of fat. you burn almost 100% fat whilst you are asleep, but sleeping clearly is not the path to fat loss. there is nothing wrong with using glycogen as a fuel.
If you read what I posted earlier, people here were asing how to drop fat in the quickest time possible.
yes, but what they meant was, how to achieve the quickest rate of fat loss, measured in weeks or months, not simply the most calorie expensive exercise which will use the most calories per half hour.
Im feeling a little light headed , just going for a quick lay down
