🏃🏽‍♀️Best Cardio To Lose Fat And Keep Muscle

24 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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In this conversational segment, Eric Roberts explains that to lose fat while preserving muscle, one should prioritize low‑intensity steady‑state (LISS) cardio. He advises keeping heart rate low enough to maintain a conversation, which allows calorie burn without triggering excessive cortisol or interfering with recovery from strength training. High‑intensity cardio can impede muscle recovery because it adds additional stress on top of weight‑lifting sessions. Eric also lists practical LISS options such as stair steppers, stationary bikes, treadmills, outdoor walking, and rowing machines, emphasizing that any of these can be used to achieve fat loss without sacrificing muscle mass.

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Switch up. Let me explain this. If you're trying to keep muscle when you're doing cardio, you usually want to do low-intensity steady-state cardio where your heart rate is not getting super high and you can basically maintain a conversation like you and I are right now. This is because you can burn more calories without adding extra stress and cortisol to your body. You're already adding stress from your strength training workouts. You want to recover from these to keep your muscle. And if you're doing cardio that jacks your heart rate up super high, you're not going to be able to recover.
You can do the stair stepper, the bike, the treadmill, walk outside, rower, whatever.
Just keep it to lower intensity.