Why Weight

Weightlifting & Burning Fat

By Jonathan Jenkins


For most of the dieters around the world, losing weight is about living on the treadmill and going to an aerobics class, however; most forget the lonely weightlifting machines in the corner of the gym. Many expert trainers will tell you that cardio will burn fatter but weightlifting will only tone and build your muscle. Such advice can be a bit misleading since the more muscle you have, the more fat you'll burn just sitting down doing nothing.

According to a study by the Fitness Products Council and Sporting Goods Manufacturers, the number of people lifting free weights has skyrocketed to a 76% in the past decade. Such popularity has been garnered from the fact that muscle is a natural fat burner.

In North America, weightlifting has become one of the most popular sports played. This trend is for the common good, since an exercise regime combining both cardio and weightlifting will result in greater fat burning results.

Cardiovascular exercises raise muscle metabolism during and for a short time after the exercise session. While weightlifting exercises raise the muscle's metabolism during and long after the exercise session. Some high intensity trainers have seen their metabolism rise for several days following their training sessions.

You repetitions should be in the range of 8-18 when weightlifting, since limited resistance on muscles will render their tissue leaner and stronger. Muscle needs rest periods, make sure you space out your training sessions throughout the week.

Given your goals, you must understand what really happens when you weight lift. When doing so, muscle tissues are torn apart from the stress of the weights and later on (in the resting periods) repaired, grown stronger, and become more stress tolerant. You should try to take at least a day or two between weight lifting sessions, so your muscles can heal.

During those two days, the muscle would be active burning calories in order to heal the tissue. That's the crucial time for you to get on that treadmill, since cardio will stimulate your body on a different level. Combining weight lifting with cardio will exhaust your muscles in a harmonious environment to maximize your weight loss.

During the resting period, the muscle metabolism is still burning energy. That's the right time to perform cardiovascular activities, since carrying out high repetition of the same movement will tire the body on a different level. Combining low repetition exercises (weightlifting) with high repetition cardiovascular exercise will stress your muscles in a complementary way to maximize the fat burning effect.

So, for those skeptics who doubt whether weightlifting is the magical recipe for fat loss, they should definitely try it some day and see for themselves.

The gist of all this is to successfully embed a weightlifting role in your exercise diet in order to kick-start the metabolism and fat burning ratio. However, one must be advised that some people lose a lot of their muscle mass while on those fad diets, try to avoid them at all costs, especially if you're weightlifting. Don't jump for instant success when you can have gradual, healthy, and permanent weight loss.

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