Burn Calories With Weights

Everyone understands that with cardiovascular exercise you can burn plenty of calories, and this is why people tend to use treadmills/cross trainers and other cardiovascular equipment in their quest for fat loss. You can see why because these machines actually give you a guideline around how many calories you’ve burnt while you’re using them. The visual stimulus of seeing the calories burnt figure helps you feel like you’re immediately becoming closer to your fat loss goals as you watch the calories burn before your eyes.

Cardiovascular exercise predominantly uses the aerobic system, whereas lifting weights uses the anaerobic system. This means that, because lifting weights involves short bursts of high-intensity movements, the body cannot create all of the energy it needs from oxygen; it needs to gather energy from sugars instead.