what is the best cardio for shedding fat and keeping muscle?

Question

I have been weight lifting for a bout 2 years and eat a lot. I do not do cardio. what is the best and easiest cardio plan? I thought about running but i unfortunately am a smoker (trying to quit) so running is hard for me. I would hate for all my effort in my weight training to be wasted do to storage of fat esspecially around my chest and abdominals. The muscle is there but hidden by annoying fat. I was told if i wanted to gain mass to eat eat eat and lift a lot of weights without doing any cardio but now it seems that i've gotten bigger and more muscular but my chest and abdominal area is lagging do to fat.what is the best solution to this problem?

Answer 1

The circular staircase stairstepping machine. That thing belongs in a medieval dungeon. =(

Answer 2

First when they said eat and eat and eat you want to be sure to be eating the right foods. You want to up your calorie intake to be 3500 - 5000. And you want the carbs from fruits and veggies and the protein from chicken fish or eggs. And fats from sources like nuts. It doesn't matter what machine you use for cardio it only depends on the duration of the cardio work out. Anything over 60 minutes and you body has to tap into muscle for energy. Anything less than 30 min just isn't long enough to see a body adaption. So I'd say 45 min on any cardio machine you prefer. The best one would be a elliptical or cross trainer type machine. I say this because you will burn more cal. in less time on this type of machine and more cal. in 45 than with say a stair stepper or bike. And the more cal. you burn the more fat will be burned! But it sounds like you diet is holding you back more than anything ;)

Answer 3

You should not eat eat eat...

In fact, you should eat a little less that what you need so your body will have to use your fat reserve as fuel so you can get rid of those and show off your muscles underneath.

You should do low intensity cardios (no running, good for you...how it that quitting smoking going?), like 60%-65% intensity (stationary bicycle, swimming, light jogging, anything easy you can sustain for one hour or more...) and after about 20 to 30 minutes, your body will start to use your fat reserve as fuel so keep going like the Energizer Bunny...

Eat enough proteins to keep building muscle mass if you're still lilting a lot of weights but watch your calories intake so you can use that fat reserve of yours.

Answer 4

mens bodies usually store fat reserves in those areas when womens bodies store it more all over.
you will probably have to quit smoking because you have to do cardio 4-6 times a week for 30-50min to lose fat (ideally 45min because the first 20-30min body burns carbs and only then starts burning fat) - the best and easiest ones - elliptical as well as other cardio machines in the gym, cycling will build thigh muscles as well as burn fat, swimming is cardio with toning, you can switch them up as much as you want - the more you keep your body guessing the better results you will get.