NaturalNews March 5 2013
While both aerobic exercise and resistance training will improve your overall health, only aerobic exercise is actually helpful in producing weight loss, according to a study conducted by researchers from Duke University and East Carolina University, and published in the Journal of Applied Physiology.
“Given our observations, it may be time to seriously reconsider the conventional wisdom that resistance training alone can lead to weight and fat loss,” lead author Leslie H. Willis said.
The study was funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, a division of the National Institutes of Health.
Researchers assigned 234 sedentary adults between the ages of 18 and 70, all of them overweight or obese, to take part in one of three supervised exercise programs for eight months. The participants were assigned either to aerobic training, resistance training or a combination of the two.