With a good diet and training you can minimize your need for cardio.
But its still will help ALOT ,Fagonis didn't read about how cardio effect your metabolism for days after a session.
He should come to the hardcore board and get whooped with some real research material.
That is another myth.
Critiques
When generalized fitness is a professional operational requirement, as for athletes, combat services, police and fire personnel, aerobic exercise alone may not provide a well-balanced exercise program. In particular, muscular strength, especially upper-body muscular strength, is usually neglected. Also, the metabolic pathways involved in anaerobic metabolism, glycolysis and lactic acid fermentation, are not exercised at peak rates, and these are important for peak performance of many tasks. Aerobics is, however, an extremely valuable component of a balanced exercise program.
Some persons suffer repetitive stress injuries with some forms of aerobics and then must choose less-injurious, "low impact" forms.
Aerobics notably does not increase the resting metabolic rate as much as some forms of weight-training, and may therefore be less effective at reducing obesity. However, this form of exercise also allows for longer, more frequent activity and consumes more energy when the individual is active. If one wants to lose fat, the most efficient way to do this (according to some scientists), is by executing prolonged exercises when feeling weak and hungry (while being careful not to go too far).
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Commercial success
Aerobic exercise has long been a popular form of weight loss and physical fitness, often taking a commercial form.
Tennis and jogging gained prominence and popularity in the 1970s
Judi Sheppard Missett largely helped create the market for commercial aerobics with her Jazzercise program in the 1970s
Richard Simmons hosted an aerobic exercise show on television, beginning in the 1980s, and continued with A variety of exercise videos.
Billy Blanks's Tae Bo helped popularize cardio-boxing, workouts that used martial arts movements in the 1990s
The Nia Technique, also called Neuromuscular Integrative Action, was developed in the 1980s as a form of "non-impact" aerobics (the original words in the acronym). In the 1980s, impact injuries and "no pain no gain" attitudes came to dominate traditional aerobics classes. By contrast, the Nia Technique is based on "the body's way" -- moving with ease and pleasure, to follow a personal journey to not only physical but also mental, emotional, and spiritual fitness.
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References
Cooper, Kenneth, Aerobics, 1969
Donatelle, Rebecca J. Health: The Basics. 6th ed. San Francisco: Pearson Education, Inc. 2005.
