2958: The Best Cardio for Fat Loss Endurance and Athleticism (They Are All Different)

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Adam Schafer (2:19)

All right, we're gonna talk about cardio, cardiovascular training. We're gonna talk about the best forms of cardio for things like fat loss, endurance, and athleticism. We're gonna break them down, and this will help you determine which one's best for you and your goals. Let's get to it.

Justin Andrews (2:35)

Yeah.

Adam Schafer (2:36)

Let's talk about cardio, guys.

Justin Andrews (2:37)

Yeah.

Sal Di Stefano (2:38)

Are we qualified? Yeah.

Justin Andrews (2:40)

Team No Sweat.

Adam Schafer (2:41)

It is, so just before we get into it, cardiovascular training is a form of exercise that it's referred to as cardio because it's, you know, it speaks to train the cardiovascular system. Mainly the adaptation you get from cardio is endurance when you compare it to other forms of exercise, right? If you were to kind of generally say, what does cardio do?

Justin Andrews (3:01)

It's the best benefit.

Adam Schafer (3:02)

It'll give you endurance, but people do cardio for a lot of different reasons. And the three I listed in the beginning are the most common. Most common would be fat loss. The average person who does cardio, although they like the other benefits, the main benefit that I would say the average person does it for is fat loss. And the next would be endurance, and the last would be athleticism. And depending on what your goal is, then that would determine the form of cardio that you pick. So the first cardio style of training, which some people are gonna give us heat for this, because I didn't even classify this as cardio early on. I would just classify this as activity, and I could still do that. But I would put this in that category for the average person is walking.

I'll put walking in there. And I'll say, and I'll make this argument all day long, if fat loss is your goal, then walking is the best form of cardio. And people are gonna hate that I said that.

Justin Andrews (3:57)

Yep.

Adam Schafer (3:57)