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Originally Posted by PeteSB75

If fat loss is your primary goal, lifting is substantially more effective than cardio. Lifting, your exercise burns calories and increases your ability to burn calories, and increases your BMR all at once. Cardio alone burns calories, but only for that day. When I was losing weight, I would lift and then go walk on the treadmill for 20 minutes after. I did no other cardio, just made sure I got to the gym 4-5 days a week and ate good food throughout the day so I wasn't hungry when I got home.

Thanks for the input, but fat loss isn't my primary goal.. My primary goal is to gain muscle but I do not want to completely cut out cardio. I'm following the Dogcrapp philosophies and part of it is to do fasting, low intensity cardio. I want to burn excess fat without losing any muscle mass. Theory behind fasting cardio is that by putting your body in a fasting state the primary fuel will be fat and ketone bodies, rather then glucose. I just question the effectiveness considering your body needs more then 12 hours of fasting to reach a state where it is only using fat and ketone bodies as energy.