Cardio for Weight Loss?

Posted on 24. Feb, 2010 by Jay in Gym

I think deep down I always knew cardio was great for weight loss, but I still focused primarily on strength training for a long time. It wasn’t until I was watching ‘The Biggest Loser’ the other day when trainer Jillian was talking about ‘cardio cardio cardio’ for weight loss. She emphasized it so much as a key to losing weight that I guess it stuck with me. That and of course diet.

So I think from now on I’ll do more cardio with my workouts. Before I would normally do 10-20 minutes of cardio.. either on the treadmill or elliptical machine. I’m going to up it to around 30 minutes from now on.

Since I started with more cardio I have noticed a slight increase of weight loss. I say slight because I have only had 30 minute cardio sessions for about a week now.

Oh and by the way my trainer doesn’t want me to workout everyday like I said I wanted to. He said six days a week is fine, but that I needed a rest one day.. so I guess the rest day will have to be something less physical like yard work or something.

I think I beat the plateau! Yay!

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5 Responses to “Cardio for Weight Loss?”

Chad

24. Feb, 2010

I’ve never like cardio – but I’ve come to enjoy it a bit more since working with my trainer on it. This week, I’m supposed to up my cardio to 50 minutes, 4x/week, which I never would have done on my own! You have to make it a game almost to get through it (how much of it can I jog? Can I go 2 more minutes, etc.).
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AndrewENZ

25. Feb, 2010

Love my cardio, well I love my running!
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Steve

25. Feb, 2010

Love cardio, especially running and the ARC Trainer.

Still don’t like strength training, but it’s a necessary evil, so I do it.

Way to beat the plateau. You’re a weight loss machine.
.-= Steve´s last blog ..The weekend… =-.

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David

25. Feb, 2010

Exercise is a damaging activity, and the body has to have time to repair from that. That’s how I’ve justified the day off.

Last night on the treadmill I realized what I used to think about exercise — that it was worthless for weight loss. My problem was really that my eating was out of control and I was not consistent with exercise at all. I expected too much out of a single workout. It’s really a lifestyle of regular exercise that has to happen. And first, right eating. All habitually. Who’d have thought.
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Ava

26. Feb, 2010

Cardio is all I do, I enjoy it but I actually kinda wish I did more strength training!

I think a days of is good too.. I usually work out 6/7 days a week.. And mostly one day of the week I’m so pooped I can’t bother going to the gym.
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Welcome to JayLoss.com! I’m Jay!

I'm Jay and I've come a long way from my peak weight of 336 pounds!

I've documented my weight loss from 268 pounds all the way down to 170-ish pounds in this blog. It took just under a year to do and since reaching my goal weight, I decided to maintain 180 pounds. Now I'm focusing on building muscle and maintaining a healthy body fat percentage.

Of course there have been a lot of ups and downs in losing so much weight. The process of setting goals and reaching them is very exciting. Just having something to strive for and using this blog as pressure to keep me going did wonders.

Stick around, give me your feedback and maybe start your own weight loss journey. -Jay

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