Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Lift Weights and Lose Weight? Yes or No?

One of the myths of fitness training is that lifting weight won’t help you lose weight. Everyone agrees that increasing your metabolism will have you burn fat and lose weight. Well, building more muscle is what will boost that metabolism and help you keep the fat off.

While you can definitely lose weight by diet and doing cardio, you may be losing muscle also. As you lose muscle, your metabolism will slow down – and the weight will creep back on! Add weight training to your routines to keep your muscle mass and shed that fat permanently.

If you lift weights two to three times each week, you will gain an average of one pound of muscle each month. After six months of that routine the rate of increase will slow down. You can actually increase your resting metabolic rate 7% for every 3 lbs of muscle that you build. Converting that to calories, if your body burns 1,200 calories without exercising, you could burn another 80 or so calories a day by increasing your resting metabolism.
What a great incentive to add weight lifting to your exercise and diet routine and watch that weight come off and stay off!



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