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Originally Posted by Azure
What is missing here is that if you want to keep a healthy metabolism going, weight or resistance training needs to be added to the mix. Muscle burns more calories than fat, and your body tends to burn calories post exercise repairing and rebuilding muscle tissue.
The stigma around weight lifting needs to be removed as well.
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Yeah, that was the biggest change for me. Thought it had to be all cardio all the time. My favorite analogy was that burning calories was like paying off debt, while building muscle was like building equity in a mortgage.