In a word, yes, but that answer is somewhat limited.
Typically the trick to burning fat, and increasing muscle tone, is to increase your Basal Metabolic Rate (the rate at which your body burns calories at rest), and my preferred method for this high volume functional weight training.
Running is great, and helps dramatically with your cardio (as does swimming), but these workouts are somewhat monostructural, and limited. When you burn calories by doing monostructural lifts, you only burn calories when you are in fact working out.
If you increase your muscle density (particularly through high volume weight training) you will increase your basal metabolic rate. You may have heard that your body is warm blooded, you may have also heard that muscles weighs more than fat, well, combine these two mindsets, and it equals that muscle burns more calories than fat by definition. Increase muscle density, and you will burn calories in your sleep.
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