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Can you gain muscle and burn fat without weights or cardiovascular exercise?
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. And the squats, etc they are describing will have your heart rate through the roof. I was doing something similar for about a month ... using what the military calls the Daily 16s and that rocked me.
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.