A: Cardio is for your heart..sometimes we forget that. Cardio is great and important for heart health and conditioning.
Now using SS cardio for fat loss is inefficient for some people. These people would be athletes and people who are already lean and in good shape. If this is you, you would be correct to do HIIT/intervals or something similar.
Then again, writers and "experts" swing so far to one end following trends that they forget to whom they are speaking. The average person WILL lose fat on SS cardio. The average person can't put out the effort to do real HIGH INTENSITY interval training anyway. They can run intervals but they won't burn nearly as many calories as they would have if they had just done the stair climber for 45 minutes.
If you're unconditioned like you say then any kind of SS cardio would probably help you lose fat. Run 2 miles 3 times a week and tell me you're not going to lose fat..see what I'm saying?
PS. Swimming burns more calories than most other forms of cardio and is no/low impact = healthy joints!
Now using SS cardio for fat loss is inefficient for some people. These people would be athletes and people who are already lean and in good shape. If this is you, you would be correct to do HIIT/intervals or something similar.
Then again, writers and "experts" swing so far to one end following trends that they forget to whom they are speaking. The average person WILL lose fat on SS cardio. The average person can't put out the effort to do real HIGH INTENSITY interval training anyway. They can run intervals but they won't burn nearly as many calories as they would have if they had just done the stair climber for 45 minutes.
If you're unconditioned like you say then any kind of SS cardio would probably help you lose fat. Run 2 miles 3 times a week and tell me you're not going to lose fat..see what I'm saying?
PS. Swimming burns more calories than most other forms of cardio and is no/low impact = healthy joints!
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