WEIGHTS KILL FAT

FORGET your runners, strength training alone can burn fat, study has found.

We can lose about 1.4 per cent of our entire body fat through strength training alone, which is similar to how much we might lose through cardio or aerobics, according to a UNSW study published in Sports Medicine.

“A lot of people think that if you want to lose weight, you need to go out and run,” senior study author Dr Mandy Hagstrom said. “But our findings show that even when strength training is done on its own, it still causes a favourable loss of body fat.”