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To burn fat, you have to create a deficit through nutrition and through burning calories. Guess what?
Whether you are doing cardio, lifting weights, or doing bodyweight exercises, you'll burn calories. Doing body weight squats can put your heart rate through the roof, burn calories, and build muscle. I was doing something similar for about a month ... using what the military calls the "Daily 16s" and it was a whole new level of fitness for me.

I was following the routine from the book The United States Marine Corps Workout.

To build muscle, you must force your muscles to contract. Again, the popular way to do that today is with weights. That weight could just as easily be your body, another arm, a door frame - you name it, it can happen. How do you think the Greeks stumbled across the amazing physiques portrayed in their sculptures when weight training was not an organized sport? Because they had people with good genetics who contracted their muscles and built them.

So the answer is, "yes," you do not require a full gym or even cardiovascular exercise to burn fat and build muscle. You can do it using body weight exercises, elevating your heart rate, and following a quality nutrition program.

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