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Following aerobic exercise, a person's resting metabolic rate remains elevated anywhere from 60 minutes to about 12 hours, depending on the intensity and duration of the workout.

Although a typical weightlifting workout may only burn about 60% of the calories burned during a moderate bout of cardio of the same duration (for instance, a 180lb man would burn 210 calories in 30 minutes vs. 360 calories if he jogged at 6 miles per hour for the same period), that gap closes over the long haul. The payoff for weight training comes during the following rest days, when the 180lb man would burn an additional 800 calories simply from having an elevated metabolism.