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Tabata intervals help

  • 14-01-2015 2:25pm
    #1
    Deer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I am pretty clueless about exercise hands up. In August I started to exercise using YouTube, I started with a twenty minute Tabata programme then alternated with the Jillian Michaels shred usually about four times a week. I did this in conjunction with cutting added sugars from my diet and went from 13.5 stone to 11stone 4 last week.

    My back is a little dodge so I've cut the shred out for a while and I have found another Tabata type workout on YouTube. This is four minutes cardio and the rest dumbells and body weight. It doesn't take the wind out of me as much as the other one I have been doing but I like using weights.

    I'm just wondering is the Tabata method as effective with weights or is it better to use it for more cardio based for fat loss. I like weights and I like the results on my arms but I want to shift the fat first if it's a case of fat versus toning and I don't want to waste a few weeks losing nothing if the Tabata bodyweight and dumbells is not effective for far loss.

    Or am I making any sense?!

    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    Yer Aul One
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 664 ✭✭✭Yer Aul One


    Cardio will burn more calories than weight training. If its just fat loss you are going for, then keep going with the cardio and diet.

    The weights are fun, will give you strength and make you look better. If at all possible, I would recommend you keep the diet, keep the cardio sessions and supplement with some weight training.


  • #3
    Deer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭Deer


    Thanks for replying. I will go back to the cardio two days and the strength one day and so forth and hopefully soon enough I can reverse it when the fat is blasted.


  • #4
    MartyMcFly84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭MartyMcFly84


    Cardio will burn more calories than weight training. If its just fat loss you are going for, then keep going with the cardio and diet.

    Sorry what are you basing this on? Its a very old skool thinking sweeping general statement

    Surely its all relative to the type and intensity. Weight training burns a tremendous about of calories after exercising and in the days after while muscle repairs, the same cannot be said for cardio.

    Weight training will also increase muscle mass and metabolic rate which will burn more calories to maintain. The more muscle mass you have the more calories you burn sitting down watching TV or sleeping.


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