what is more important

[Giraffe]

Originally Posted by Jungle_Jim

Hi guys,
im trying to shift my xmas belly and wondered what is more important in your workout. Are you best to target the specific area or best to work other areas too such as legs for burning higher calories and general weight loss.
what ratio is also best for weights to cardio during the week for fat loss.

Any info would be fab
Ta
James

Doubt the weights would help much if it's only short term. Higher muscle mass will increase the amount of calories you burn every day normally, but short term you wont be able to get the muscle mass required.

As for fat loss, you can't target specific areas. You just do exercise and take in less calories than you burn, and fat will come off somewhere, you can't determine where. Best bet is to just hammer cardio... Look in to interval training, and apparently fat loss happens best within a certain heart rate zone. Think moderate intensity is supposed to be best, but I've not looked in to it.

Will work best if you can do it AM as well I think. Again, not looked in to it too much.