Weight Training Versus Cardio.

1. In healthy premenopausal women with normal baseline lipids, 5 months of resistance training reduced total CHO and the LDL fraction.
   Boyden, in archives of Internal Medicine, 153(1):97-100, Jan 11, 1993.
   
   
2. Resistance training is an effective way to increase energy requirements, decrease body fat and, maintain metabolically active tissue mass in healthy older people and may be useful in weight control
   Campbell, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 60(2): 167-175
   
   
3. There is a much better adaptation to life activity with weight training versus cardio.
   McCartney et al: American Journal of Cardiology. May 1991.
   
   
4. Individuals who are not competitive aerobic athletes, but who spend 5-10 hours per week in the aerobic zone for the purpose of improving their appearance, would benefit greatly by reducing their amount of cardio and incorporating resistance training.
   Frederick C Hatfield PHD
   
   
5. In all the cases I have witnessed, my clients who incorporate weight training, achieve faster fat loss and get much leaner and slimmer than clients who use diet only. Weight training for women is by far the best form of exercise for slimming.
   Jacquie Dale 2005 real nutrition