Query: Attending to the gymnasium regularly with lengthy hours of labor and many different tasks may be difficult. The times I do go to the gymnasium I’d a lot fairly raise weights than do cardio. Can I lose stomach fats with core-strengthening workouts solely or do I should incorporate cardio, too?
—From reader Daniel Huizar
Reply: The brief reply: No, you don’t should do a separate cardio session. “A full-body power coaching program with shorter relaxation intervals together with core-strengthening workouts is definitely the simplest exercise you are able to do to lose stomach fats when you solely have one to a few hours every week to dedicate to train,” says Rachel Cosgrove, C.S.C.S., co-owner of Outcomes Health in Southern California. Combining actions that focus on your higher and decrease physique comparable to planks, bent-over dumbbell rows, and lunges with bicep curls with brief relaxation intervals nonetheless delivers all the advantages of cardio since you improve your coronary heart fee with every set together with boosting your metabolism to burn fats.
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