337. Q&A: Do You Really Need to Lift Weights to Lose Fat? The Truth About Strength Training & Fat Loss (Fit Girl Fall)
Hot, Healthy, Never Hungry
Lauren Hubert MS, RD
4.9 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode as part of the Fit Girl Fall series, I'm sitting down to discuss a question submitted by our amazing listener Abbey on the benefits and drawbacks of traditional weight lifting versus a la carte fitness classes.
We all know that using progressive overload as a technique when lifting weights allows your muscles to be challenged so you can see the results you want – but what happens when you do a la carte fitness classes such as Peloton Strength workouts? Do these workouts impact your results even if you enjoy them or they are convenient?
Today's episode is going to address two things. First, is it a myth that you need to lift heavy weights to get lean and lose body fat? And secondly, I discuss the benefits and drawbacks of traditional weight lifting versus one-time classes such as Peloton Strength and Orangetheory so you know how to choose the right training style for your goals, schedule and fitness level.
If you're looking to not just lose weight but reshape your body, this episode is going to help you figure out if what you're doing is enough for the results you want to see.
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Related Episodes:
🎙️Episode 329: Welcome To Fit Girl Fall 2025
🎙️Episode 335: This Is How Much Protein You Need Per Day To Lose Weight (Fit Girl Fall)
🎙️Episode 336: Should You Actually Be Fasting for Fat Loss? (Fit Girl Fall)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my beautiful people, and welcome back to another episode of the Hot Healthy, |
| 0:11.5 | Never Hungry podcast and one of the final episodes, not the final one yet. Don't get too |
| 0:17.2 | exciting, guys. Just kidding, it's not wrapping up yet. But one of the second to last |
| 0:22.1 | episodes of the Fit Girl Fall series that I have been doing on this podcast this year, it is 2025, my |
| 0:28.5 | friend, if you're listening to this in real time. And I have a really fun episode today that I wanted |
| 0:34.7 | to first answer a question that I got asked actually as part of our Q&A segment. And I wanted to first answer a question that I got asked actually as part of our |
| 0:40.2 | Q&A segment. And I wanted to bring it into this episode and also just address something that |
| 0:45.5 | continuously comes up that we have not talked about this Rick Girl Fall early ever on this podcast, |
| 0:50.7 | which is do you need to lift heavy weights to be able to see body fat loss? |
| 0:54.7 | Like, is this something that's really necessary? |
| 0:56.9 | So how this episode today is going to work is I am going to have the lovely Abby ask her |
| 1:03.8 | question. |
| 1:04.5 | I want to answer the question, is lifting weights actually necessary? |
| 1:08.0 | And then I want to dive into a little bit of what Abby had specific |
| 1:11.8 | questions about that is all related to lifting weights. And once again, is this really necessary? |
| 1:16.9 | And all of this will make sense when you hear her question. Before we begin and talk about all |
| 1:21.2 | these great topics today, I want to give a shout out to a Nick 17 pound. She said, |
| 1:26.3 | always a great episode. I love this podcast. I always look for |
| 1:29.7 | new episodes every week. Lauren makes things simple to follow and Lauren always understands |
| 1:34.6 | how life gets in the way and always has great tips on how to get it done. Girl, thank you so much |
| 1:40.5 | for your kind words. And I am so happy that you are not only enjoying this podcast, |
| 1:46.9 | but because I make things simple and easy to follow, I can only imagine that you are taking |
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