Running Doesn’t Make You Lose Weight: Here’s What’s Wrong With Running.

Introduction

Running doesn’t make you lose weight!

Today I’ll explain why running and cardio don’t work for people who want to lose weight. At the end, I’ll also tell you what you should do from a training perspective.

This is “Health Secrets,” an exclusive episode for the group “Weight Loss Secrets for Women and Girls.”

Why don’t running and cardio work?

You may have noticed this yourself. You want to lose weight, so you decide to start training. You sign up at a gym, and the first thing trainers often put you on is the treadmill: walking, running, aerobics, cardio workouts.

This can go on for weeks or months. At first you see change—you lose weight—but very quickly the weight loss stops. You start doing more running, more walking, and more cardio, but it becomes harder and harder to lose weight, and the workouts take more time and effort.

Now you’re stuck and you don’t know what to do. Running, walking, and the other exercises aren’t giving results anymore, and you get discouraged.

That’s because cardio and running don’t work long-term. They’re a card you can play for a short time, and then they stop delivering results.

What should you do if you want to lose weight?

You need to increase your muscle mass as much as possible. The more muscle mass you have, the faster you burn fat. That’s because more muscle increases your metabolic rate—meaning your body burns more calories throughout the day.

That’s why people with more muscle can eat a lot and still not gain weight. Their muscle mass gives them a faster metabolism, so they burn many more calories.

Muscle mass increases by lifting weights, and in contrast, muscle mass can decrease if you focus only on cardio.

When you do cardio—like long runs—your body adapts in a way like this:

“I need to become more efficient at running. I need to adapt to running. To make running easier, I’ll reduce my body weight.”

And since both fat and muscle add to body weight, the body may reduce both. Also, because running doesn’t require full muscle activation, your body doesn’t “need” as much muscle—so it can reduce muscle mass over time.

By lowering muscle mass, the body also lowers metabolism—your ability to lose weight efficiently.

So your best choice is strength training and weightlifting. This will increase muscle mass and speed up your metabolism.

If you’re a beginner, you should learn the basic weightlifting exercises, such as:

• Squats
• Deadlift
• Lat Pulldown
• Bench Press

These foundational exercises help the most with building muscle mass.

In the gym, exercises are divided into compound and isolation movements.

Compound exercises involve many muscles because the body moves multiple parts at once.

Isolation exercises move only one body part or target one muscle.

To build muscle as a beginner, you should focus on compound exercises—where the body moves multiple parts. And the exercises mentioned above do exactly that.

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