Hello and welcome back to Ask Dr Hazel, our mini episodes that drop each week between our main episodes where I answer all your burning questions.

Thank you to everyone who's sent in your questions already, and if you'd like to submit the question of your own to the podcast on any topic related to health, fitness, nutrition, or mindset, please send

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So let's jump into our first question of the season.

Hi, Hazel. My name is Melanie Malcanson, and I live in a town just outside of Toronto, Ontario,

Canada.

The question I have is, what is the definition of strength training?

Recently, I've read some articles saying that strength training is a better way to burn fat than just doing cardio.

But I'm not exactly sure what is the definition of it. I do do Les Mills body pump and I'm wondering if this is considered strength training. Thanks. Hello Melanie and thank you so much for

your question. One of the reasons I love listening to your questions rather than reading them is it's just so

nice to hear your voices and hear whereabouts you guys are listening to the podcast from.

So this is a really great question and I think it does cause a lot of confusion because I'm

often asked about it. So what's the difference or what's the definition of strength training?

Now strength training and resistance training are often used interchangeably and that's not

incorrect. By definition, strength training is really any form of movement that increases muscle

strength by making the muscles work against a weight or a force.

And this could be your own body weight, it could be using free weights, weight machines or even

resistance bands. Now some forms of exercise do this anyway and that most obvious would be something

like going to the gym or doing CrossFit, but other forms of

movement like yoga where you're using your body as a resistance also count as strength training.

Now I had to look up Les Mills body pump, which is what you asked me about, and from the class

description it says using light to moderate free weights and a barbell so yes this

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