Weight Training And Weight Loss

Weight Training And Weight Loss: Dispelling the Myths

Believe it or not, weight training, and not aerobics, is the most effective exercise for long term weight loss success.

Yes, you can lose some weight by implementing an aerobic-based fitness activity. And any good weight loss program should include an aerobic element. After all, it's hard to argue with any exercise that has such a beneficial effect on the entire cardiovascular system. However combining aerobics, weight training and weight loss pursuits is the best bet folks...and here's why.

Working out with weights not only protects lean muscle mass - it builds it. This requires additional calories, since the body must repair the muscle you damaged by building new muscle. This is done not while you're working out (again contrary to popular belief), but later, while you're resting.

And where, I hear you asking, does the body get the energy to rebuild damaged muscle? Yup, from your fat stores.

And there's even better news...

Once that new muscle is built, it requires additional calories at rest, and your metabolism raises proportionately. As you continue to work out, you can see how this gains momentum to work exponentially in your favor. Other major problems with aerobic activity?

It is a very inefficient way of burning calories (1 hour on an exercise bicycle burns just over 300 calories), and it it does not contribute to a raised metabolism much past the period of exercising. In other words, you only achieve the benefit of a raised metabolism while you are performing the aerobic activity. Weight training, on the other hand, can result in a raised metabolic rate for up to 72 hours AFTER the training period.

Furthermore, through weight training Testosterone, and Human Growth Hormone, both having very powerful anabolic (muscle-building), and fat burning properties, are released when you work out with weights. Considering this phenomenon, you can see that weight training and weight loss have more of a symbiotic relationship than probably meets the eye.

Going even futher, studies confirm that combining aerobic exercise, dieting, and strength training leads to greater losses of body fat and weight than when you only diet or diet and do aerobic exercise.

Well, that's a lot of win-win points for why weight training and weight loss can both be done simultaneously with both benefiting the other.

Perhaps another thing that weight training and weight loss might have in common in my
estimation is that when THE proper diet is used for both, the two processes are all the more enhanced and improved, with the end result being an improvement in health, fitness and overall well being.


So, can weight training and weight loss programs be combined?

You can bet your bottom dollar they can.

All in all, here's to health and wellness.


Aje

Foras Aje is an independent researcher and co-founder of BodyHealthSoul LLC. Stop by His Website today for more on Healthy Living Tips and information on Abdominal Exercises, Weight Training And Weight Loss


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