| Everyone knows that changing the way you eat and | | | | A Toner Body |
| increasing your physical activities is the only sure-fire | | | | When you consider weight lifting images of beefy, |
| way to reduce fat, lose weight and to stay healthy. | | | | muscle-bound giants may come to mind. Though |
| When most people think of exercising to lose weight | | | | weight lifting can certainly lead to that if done in |
| they think of highly aerobic activities like jogging and | | | | manner that promotes continuous growth, it definitely |
| bicycling. However, resistance exercises using weights | | | | isn't the norm, or even all that desirable to most people. |
| of machinery can also play an important role in losing | | | | The key to losing fat and getting a toner and more |
| weight and keeping it off. | | | | attractive body is repetition. |
| Studies indicate that people who employ a combination | | | | You do your body more good by doing a lot of |
| of weight training and aerobic exercise as a part of | | | | repetitions with a lighter weight than you would by |
| their weight loss attempt are able to reduce their body | | | | doing just a few repetitions with the heaviest weight |
| fat over one and a half times more quickly than people | | | | you could lift. Not only does repetition with moderate |
| who simply diet. Aerobics are essential for heart health, | | | | weight do more good, but it is also less likely to hurt |
| strong lungs, stamina and overall fitness. However, | | | | you. Weight training in this way gives you a toner, |
| without weight training you aren't able to maximize | | | | more effective body without making you look "bulky". |
| your weight loss efforts. | | | | Long Term |
| Metabolism | | | | The effects of increased metabolism go far beyond |
| Weight training, as everyone knows, helps build muscle. | | | | just the immediate reward of helping you lose fat |
| A pound of fat alone will only consume about 14 | | | | much more quickly. As long as you continue to |
| calories in a week. Muscles, on the other hand, can | | | | exercise regularly and maintain a healthier degree of |
| consume as much as 500 calories in a week just to | | | | muscle mass your metabolism will remain higher. Your |
| maintain themselves. That is not even including the | | | | body will continue to function more effectively and look |
| massive amount of calories burned during exercise. | | | | better. |
| The ability of the body to utilize the food that it takes in | | | | This means that, not only will you look better and feel |
| is called metabolism. Because muscles use so much | | | | better, your body will be able to keep the fat off. So |
| more energy, when you increase your muscle mass | | | | many people fail at their weight loss attempts because |
| you greatly increase your metabolism. As your | | | | they don't consider long term care, end up putting the |
| muscles burn through the calories consumed in the | | | | weight back on and often give up. With a regular |
| food you eat they begin to burn fat as a source of | | | | balance of aerobic and resistance exercises as a part |
| fuel too. This is why weight training helps people lose | | | | of your overall commitment to better health you can |
| weight much more quickly. | | | | look better and have more energy for years to come. |