Vif you compare the fastest 100-meter runners with the best marathon runners in the world, it seems clear: if you want to lose weight, you should do endurance sports. Because while the muscle-packed sprinters look like extras from a gladiator film, you would rather treat the emaciated endurance athletes to a three-course meal. And it also sounds logical: Anyone who runs for hours uses up more calories than someone whose sporting performance is over after ten seconds. Generations of those wanting to lose weight have therefore declared endurance sports to be their means of choice. And in fact, sport with a high calorie consumption was considered the best, even the only effective way to get rid of kilos, even among experts. But a recent study is now doing away with this traditional wisdom.
