There are many reasons anyone may want to lose weight. They may be wanting to lose weight to achieve better health, to look better in clothes, improve chances of finding the right relationship, be able to do more with family and many others.
When discussing weight training as a way to lose weight many are concerned they will gain muscle and actually look bigger.
Making weight training a routine part of your exercise regimen will result in the building of muscle. Initially, it may seem you are not making any progress from a weight loss standpoint; however, if you stick with it you should start noticing changes such as clothing fitting better, more muscular tone, and an increase in energy.
Weightlifting can be an incredibly powerful tool when it comes to losing weight and may just be what is needed to give your weight loss program the boost it needs.
The following discusses how weight training will help you burn fat and start losing weight, right away, so you can move forward with your weight loss goals.
Weight training is not typically looked at as an aerobic activity
Weight training primarily utilizes the glycogen system for producing energy, your heart rate will increase during weight training exercise, and if you workout for about 40 minutes you should burn about 500 calories.
The average person burns about 2,000 calories per day just doing their normal daily activities. Adding 40 minutes of weight training can help you burn an extra 500 calories each day you workout.
One pound of fat is equivalent to about 3,500 calories, so burning an extra 500 calories per day or decreasing your intake 500 calories may help you lose about one pound per week.
Running for the same amount of time will burn a similar amount of calories.
You should consider investing in a fitness tracker and see how many calories you are burning, so that you can adjust your workouts with confidence.
Lifting weights tends to work several muscle groups even when you are focusing on one area of the body. The release of hormones such as testosterone and growth hormone are stimulated and help in the repair of muscle after your workouts. The involvement of multiple muscles during workouts boost your metabolism and burns more fat even when you are sleeping.
Lifting weights will help you get more toned, may help get rid of stretch marks, and give the illusion of weight loss even if you are not showing evidence of losing weight on the scale.
Resistance cardio involves combining cardiovascular exercise with resistance exercise (weight training). Examples of resistance cardio include riding a stationary bike on a high setting, or performing the rowing exercise against a lot of resistance.
So, when your goal is to lose weight, look more toned and get healthier a combination of cardiovascular and resistance exercise should be an excellent consideration.
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