This is a great question as many people engage in one or the other to improve their health and fitness.
You need to perfect your primary
fitness goal. Is it to lose weight, build new muscle and strength, improve
workout performance or increase endurance? Is it to improve everyday life or to
become more competitive at a sport?
After you have identified your primary fitness goal, you
need to take a look at the best way to achieve that goal.
If your goal is to lose weight then it is important to
include a sufficient amount of cardio to burn more calories and increase your
metabolic rate.
If your goal is to increase strength and muscle then weight
training in any form is the protocol. Remember the more muscle tissue that you
carry the more calories that are needed to maintain it. And weight training
stimulates the cardiovascular system and increases aerobic capacity just not as
much as aerobics.
If you’re an athlete and your sport requires intense, short
bursts of exertion, like hockey, then a solid HIIT, high intensity interval
training program that focuses on two-minute bursts of activity (the average
hockey shift is two minutes) would be effective.
The ideal program incorporates both aerobic and strength
training for best results.
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