Sal Di Stefano

So let's add muscle.

It's okay if we add some muscle.

We can bump our metabolism, because then you're also feeding yourself.

So it's like, look, we got plenty of food.

We need strength.

Add muscle.

So your body will build more muscle.

And so those are the two signals that are happening.

Both of them can increase your appetite.

I find, in my opinion, this is my anecdote, cardio creates more of the strong, acute cravings, whereas strength training can generally cause an increase in appetite from a boost in metabolism.

So what you'll find with cardio is, I did a really intense cardio session this morning.

Oh my God, by lunchtime or dinner, I'm like craving, like I am starving.

Strength training doesn't seem to cause that acute rise in appetite, but more of a slow rise in appetite that's coming from fueling this new added tissue.

By the way, there was a study that was done, Jen, that I don't know if you saw this, but they compared strength training to cardio to strength training plus cardio.

Mm-hmm.

to look at fat loss.

These were diabetic individuals, but they were looking at fat loss.

Strength training outperformed the other ones.

They even outperformed a little bit, slightly, even outperformed strength training plus cardio, but it definitely outperformed cardio for fat loss, for pure fat loss.

Hi everyone, Drew Proat here. So many of us have been conditioned into valuing the number on the scale above many other markers of health. And it's no wonder why social media, traditional media is flooded with weight loss advice, much of which is unhelpful or unsustainable.