Sal Di Stefano

You need endurance and stamina.

And while you do it, you do burn a lot of calories.

You burn more calories in an hour of cardio than any other form of exercise.

So you need lots of endurance and stamina.

You don't need a lot of strength.

You're burning a lot of calories while you do it.

Oh, let's get rid of muscle.

We don't need a lot of strength.

We just need stamina.

And since we're burning so many calories, let's reduce the amount of calories we burn while we do it so that we can become more efficient cardio machines.

So that's what ends up happening.

Now, strength training is different.

Strength training doesn't burn a ton of calories while you do it.

It's actually one of the lowest calorie burning forms of exercise in a per hour.

I'm talking about traditional strength training, not the baloney strength training, quote unquote, where you're just cardio with weights, but like a real strength training.

You do a set of eight reps, you rest for two or three minutes, then you do another one.

You don't burn a lot of calories.

But what you are doing is you're sending a very strong signal to the body, especially if you pair it with proper nutrition, that says we need strength.

The primary adaptation that we want right now, because the danger being posed upon us is requiring strength.

And we're not burning a lot of calories.