You have to be strength training. You're not going to build muscle through cardio.

What's up, you guys? Welcome back to the macro hour with Nikki Stott, co-founder of Warrior Babe.

And here on this podcast, we talk about mindset, methodology, and tactics that will help

you lose body fat, build muscle, be strong,

and feel insanely confident. I am your host at Nikki Statt and welcome you guys to episode number 32.

Let's go. So the other day, this woman popped up in my DMs on Instagram and she was like,

I would love for you to bring an episode

to the podcast that explains how to maintain muscle mass while running long distances. And I was

like, amen, lady. Amen, babe. Appreciate you. I appreciate you guys. I show up my DMs telling me what

you want to hear. Because

guess what? I'm here to deliver that. I know that there's probably a plethora of other women

listening to this podcast that run long distances, but also want to have an amazing physique and

build muscle and change your body composition. So like, how do you

maintain that mass while doing the activity that you enjoy doing? It's a great question. And that's what I'm

going to elaborate on today. But first, back in episode number 10, I spoke about how strength training burns more calories than cardio,

and I like, I broke it down the science and the proof.

This, in that episode, I talked about like, you're either doing one or the other, right?

And your body adapts to the type of training that you're putting it through.

Your body will adapt to strength training. Your body will adapt to cardio. They use different aspects of your body to

burn the calories and to get different types of results, right? So today, I'm going to talk

about how you can combine the both of them, because you truly can. You can combine both strength,

training, both cardio,

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