Canberra, Sept. 22 -- : It is basic exercise knowledge that to gain muscles, you strength train, and to lose fat, you do cardio- right? Not necessarily, a new study by researchers of The University of New South Wales (UNSW) suggested.
The study was published in the journal Sports Medicine.
In fact, the study- a systematic review and meta-analysis that reviewed and analysed existing evidence- shows we can lose around 1.4 per cent of our entire body fat through strength training alone, which is similar to how much we might lose through cardio or aerobics.
"A lot of people think that if you want to lose weight, you need to go out and run," said the senior author of the study Dr Mandy Hagstrom, exercise physiologist and senior lecturer at UN...