“Dr. Zaslow says balance of endurance and strength training is the right plan for best fitness results and benefits.
Article Link: Running has little effect on weight loss but has other health benefits (medicalnewstoday.com)
What, specifically, is the correlation between running and weight loss?
New research shows that running helps with weight loss – but only to a certain point. The silver lining, though, is that regularly running can prevent fat or weight gain from creeping back up. While the evidence shows that running is an effective way to maintain healthy fat mass, it doesn’t mean that an all-running regimen is the best way to stay in shape.
Getting Started and Keeping Habits.
Running can help maintain muscle mass, and strength training can help add more muscle mass – but in order for this to be effective, the body needs fuel.
“It’s critical to make sure you’re consuming enough calories because if you’re not consuming enough for the activity that you’re doing, then you actually start breaking down muscle instead of building it up, even though you’re exercising,” Dr. Tracy Zaslow, a primary care sports medicine specialist at Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute in Los Angeles and a team physician for Angel City Football Club and LA Galaxy soccer team, told Medical News Today.
To get started on the right track, Zaslow, who was not involved in the study, recommends following the guidelines set out by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that advises 150 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity per week.
“So let’s say you break your 150 minutes into a five-day workout. That’s 30 minutes for each of your five days,” Zaslow explained. “You’d want three days of endurance training and two days of strength training, and that combination would be a really good standard protocol to follow to build or maintain that muscle mass while also maintaining that lean body mass and cardiovascular fitness.”
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