18/09/2026
Cardio is the fastest way to worsen your loose skin.
Here’s the part nobody tells you 👇
👉 The more intense the cardio, the more loose skin you end up with — if you don’t do strength training and work on your nutrition
👉 Incline walk burns 180, stairs 400, running 300 — but the harder you go, the more muscle you burn alongside the fat (without strength training)
👉 And loose skin is mostly not a skin problem. It’s mostly a body composition problem. There’s nothing underneath holding it up anymore
It really bothers me that we keep selling cardio as the whole answer.
I work with people who ran every day for a year and then felt like they’d failed, when nobody ever told them the missing piece.
Strength training is the piece 👇
✅ Lift heavy 2-3x a week — muscle is what fills the skin back out, and strength training has positive effects on your whole body: skin, bones, joints, hormones, blood sugar, mood
✅ Keep cardio mostly low impact: incline walking, easy pace, long and boring
✅ Eat enough protein to actually keep what you build
✅ Sleep and recovery, because you grow between the sessions, not during them
✅ Give it 12 months, not 12 weeks — skin follows muscle, and muscle takes time
One honest note 👇
This is about the loose skin most people deal with after losing 10, 20, 30 kilos.
If you’ve come down from severe obesity, or lost a very large amount of weight, or it happened very fast, the skin can be stretched beyond what muscle and nutrition will fix.
That’s a different conversation, and one to have with a doctor. Training still makes you healthier, stronger and better off either way — it just won’t be the whole answer there.
Comment “BOOTY” and I’ll send you the free strength training programme.
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