It's much easier to cut 500 calories out of your nutrition plan than it is to burn 500 calories through exercise,

whether that's cardio or weightlifting.

So if you're not addressing your nutrition, that can be a huge problem.

If you're just going into the gym and trying to burn it off.

Welcome to the Legendary Life Podcast, where it's all about taking control of your health,

losing fat, transforming your body, and living the life you deserve with Celebrity Fitness

trainer and longevity enthusiast Ted Rice.

Now back to the show.

Have you ever wondered if cardio is necessary for burning fat?

Maybe you saw someone say that on social media, some influencer. Perhaps you read it in the past that to really burn fat you've got to do cardio or maybe even H IIT high intensity interval training.

So today we're going to answer the question do you need to do cardio to burn fat?

Is it a necessity?

Where does it fit into a fat burning program?

Because I run a body transformation, which is really body fat, a loss, right?

I don't even like to call it weight loss, although that's what most people resonate with. So where does it fit in? How do I use it? And what does the research say if you're interested in the answers to those questions and more you're in the

right place. What is that my friend? I'm Ted Rice your host. I am the coach to

busy professionals and business owners who want to lose fat and to do it in an

accelerated but healthy and sustainable way.

So I'm a bit of an expert on this and I get this question a lot and not only are we going to talk a little bit about the research but I'm going to tell you about the experience that my clients have when we play around with cardio.

So let's start off like this.

Let's say you want to lose fat and you got some, you see yourself in the mirror you're not happy with what you see.

You got a little roll around the midsection or whatever it is and you're like okay

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