Cardio

[essy]

I just started doing cardio and am going to start dieting hopefully Monday. I was told I should do an eliptical or stairmaster for 1 hour, 5 times a week. He told me not to jog because I would most likely burn muscle. Is this true? Also say I walked for an hour is that the same as running for a half an hour as long as I burn the same calories? Does it not matter the time but only the calories? What is the ideal calories I want to burn while doing cardio? Can I play any sports or anyting like that? If so is there a way to find out how many calories I burned? Thank you

 

[Vennom96]

I'll try to help out the best I can. I don't think running on the treadmill will necesarily burn muscle, but whats usually said is that low impact cardio is better for burning fat and preserving muscle. So if you're doing high impact cardio then you'll prob start to burn a little musclel if you do it for longer period of time. If you ran for 1/2 hr as opposed to walking for an hour, you'd burn more calories, just the ratio of fat burned to carbs burned would be lower since you're doing a little higher intensity. The ratio would be lower, but in the end you'd burn more fat by running. And w/ only half an hour, as long as its not really high intensity, you're prob not gonna burn any muscle.