Caaaarrdio! My hard cardio routine (2km Row, 20mins bike,
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yet without any cardio whatsoever I'm losing around 4lbs a week, with ease.
Weight loss = what you eat,
fitness and endurance, a stronger heart etc = cardio
theres no problem doing both at the same time, but realise which is for which and that it can be harder to lose weight doing cardio. doing more physical work eats up carbs, some muscle, fat, you'll be more hungry as your body wants to replenish what its missing. Where as controlling hunger on a keto diet without doing loads of cardio is ridiculously easy and the weight falls off very fast and easy.
Generally people doing lots of cardio won't be on keto as you'll mostly be too tired, so you end up eating carbs, which spikes your insulin telling your body not to burn fat but to store it. your body isn't eating fat all day, so its starving, so you're always hungry, you're eating less calories and very very slowly burning fat.
the crap we've had pushed down our throats for literally decades, low fat, high carb, 30 mins cardio a few times a week, its ALL wrong, completely, you sure can lose weight that way, theres quite literally an infinate combinations of things you can do to lose weight, however a high fat low card diet is the best way to lose weight, and cardio will never do that much for you tbh.
Weights do more for you, building muscle is perfectly possible as you have a huge amount of spare energy to use to build muscle in the form of stored fat, which also increases your resting calorie need.
Theres also another reason for big guys not doing cardio, some of them, infact far far too many simply want to be huge, but have no fitness, don't want to be bigger to be better at a sport, they just want to fill out a gay t-shirt and parade around a club looking like a douche bag.
Personally I don't get the being "huge" thing, theres very few sports where being genuinely huge helps you. Football, badminton, squash, swimming, etc, etc, the majority of sports you want to be lean, a good build but not massive as it limits your movement, costs to much energy to actually run around with so much weight on you, etc, etc. I'd much prefer a footballers build to, any one of the guys who can lift 400kg in a deadlift, because thats all those guys can do.
I sware that one of there shoulders where bigger then my head!!!!