re: Strength Training beats cardio for Health & fat loss- new study

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One was a seminar where he was advocating for 100 rep leg workouts

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I'm assuming "leg" includes quads and hamstrings. Below is what PHAT has:

Power day - 79 reps quads/hams. Doesn't include the 50 calves reps

Hypertrophy - 242 reps quads/hams. Doesn't include the 120 calf reps

All of that is the upper range of the rep targets. You could drop 10% of the above listed reps if you were on the lower end. It's a hell of a lot.

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now im not saying dont do cardio

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Without a doubt, cardio is important for things like balancing out sedentary work or lifestyle activities, longevity and all that. Cardio is very important.

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just showing that the best bang for your buck exercise wise is strength training

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It isn't just this new study - as you know, the science going back for some time (decades) that you invest the time and effort in making strength gains and they persist for months and months after the training plateaus, backs off or even ceases. It is a true "investment" and building block, as opposed to cardio which is mostly maintenance, especially below athletic thresholds. Obviously, cardio can be an investment in longevity (although more and more research shows strength might even be better for longevity, adding to the "bang for buck" proposition).

You stop doing cardio, you'll notice in a week or two. Stop lifting? You might not notice for more than a month and you'll hold those gains (at least high percentages of them) for much longer.

If you had to choose for quality of life, you would lift and try to stay as active as possible versus doing lots of structured cardio, but no lifting.

My clinical research project/paper for my Master's in Nursing was on the effects that resistance training had on lowering Hemoglobin A1C in type 2 diabetics.

The primary resource I used for the project/paper was a recently published research study that Pennington performed.

Resistance training is more effective than aerobic by itself in lower A1C. Of course, there's the added benefits of increased strength, balance, and, therefore, safety. Of course my project was geared toward the older folks.

Too often patient providers discuss walking with their patients when I believe we should focus on resistance training.

Interesting study, but IMO this study doesn’t mean much for the general population.

Asian, sarcopenic, type 2 diabetic men are a pretty select group of people with a fairly unique mix of problems.

Also the “minute for minute” concept hasn’t been discussed yet and I couldn’t find it in the abstract and couldn’t open the article itself.

30 min of running = 30 minutes of cardio
30 minutes of CrossFit = 30 minutes of resistance and cardio

How many minutes of a normal persons gym routine are actually spent lifting?
My suspicion is for the average persons 1 hour gym experience 30 minutes of it is actually spent lifting weights UNLESS it’s a class or highly organized circuit.

So if we define minute for minute as minute at the gym, my suspicion is the results might look a little different.

Don’t need to read the study, the chicks in those pics are sufficient evidence.