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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know why some people are so opposed to cardio. I’m a late 40s woman and it always helps me lose weight. Always. The second I stop doing it, like just now when I went on Spring Break, both my weight, blood sugar and blood pressure creep up. It’s amazing actually how quickly I can see the change in either direction. Maybe yours doesn’t, but my body needs cardio. [/quote]

The same here! When I do the lifting programs with my husband I get the fat ---fwiw he lifts the most in his 'chubbier stages'.

When I stopped doing cardio 4-5 days per week and transitioned to weight-lifting mostly ---the gut comes back.[/quote]

That’s because muscle grows but there is still fat over it. I feel like I have looked bigger too because I didn’t keep to a strict diet that weigh lifters usually have. [/quote]

Different methods work for different bodies. My gyn specializes in peri and menopause and recommended switching to low intensity steady state cardio and limiting carbs, and adding endurance style lifting. The type you mention above sounds like more of a hypertrophy style program aimed at muscle gains, and often requires a bulk/cut to lose the fat on top of the muscle.

If OP is struggling though, it may be another option to try. It’s not that anyone is “against” cardio, it’s just that it hasn’t gotten us the results we wanted. Again, different goals and different outcomes because we are all different![/quote]

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