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Cardio is great for health but not always necessary for weight loss. The ‘best cardio for weight loss’ depends on your goals and fitness level.

Every January, every year, in every major city in the world people flock gyms and crank the cardio to ‘burn off’ the holiday excess. And every year their weight has a habit of looking a bit like the google trend for cardio. Peaking in early January, coming back a little before summer, but generally trending up year on year.

Using cardio for weight loss is classic example of Maslow’s hammer. A problem of over reliance on a familiar tool. Think of it like this:

if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail

When someone asks themselves a question like ‘What’s the best cardio for weight loss?’ they often fail to recognise that the best tool for fat loss isn’t cardio at all, it’s diet. Cardio can be a great supplementary tool in lots of situations, but focusing solely on cardio is at best inefficient and at worst ineffective.

In this sixth section of The Fat Loss Framework we are going to look what the main benefit of cardio is, why it needs to complement diet and why it should match your fitness goals. We’ll follow this with a bunch of questions asking how you can make better cardio choices.