| Weight gain is a lot easier as you grow older | | | | and define your muscles, and build lean |
| particularly as the motivation to exercise | | | | muscles. |
| also wanes, but you can turn it around it | | | | |
| does not matter how old you are. You should | | | | When you first start to weight train you |
| start to weave some sort of exercise into | | | | might find that your weight will actually |
| your daily life. | | | | increase. This is because muscle is heavier |
| | | | than fat but as muscle is smaller so you |
| One type of exercise that you should consider | | | | should notice the body getting smaller even |
| to do is weight training, also known as | | | | if the scales do not show an decrease in |
| strength training or resistance training. | | | | weight. |
| Weight training will not only help with | | | | |
| losing weight but will also trim and tone | | | | The additional benefits from weight training |
| your body. Age does not matter it has been | | | | are:- |
| shown that women as old as 70 who have | | | | |
| started to weight train and have improved | | | | 1. It helps to strengthen and increase the |
| their body strength within a very short | | | | density of your bones because the act of the |
| while. | | | | muscles pulling and flexing the bones helps |
| | | | to lay down more bone fibre. |
| Weight training is an important element in | | | | |
| fighting flab; maybe it is the most | | | | 2. Stronger muscles helps your body to be |
| important. If you do aerobic exercise you | | | | more steady and so helps to prevent falls. |
| only burn fat during the exercise but with | | | | |
| weight training you burn fat even when you | | | | 3. It has also been found that it can fight |
| have finished. The body is still burning fat | | | | the build up of abdominal fat by lifting |
| for up to as much as twelve hours after | | | | weights at least twice a week. |
| finishing the exercise whilst it is building | | | | |
| the muscles worked, so you can still be | | | | Finally when weight training make sure that |
| burning fat while you are resting. But that | | | | you change your routine around so that the |
| is not the end of the story. | | | | body can not get use to the routine. It only |
| | | | takes the body about six weeks for it to |
| A body full of muscle uses far more calories | | | | learn how to work efficiently if keeping to |
| than a body full of fat, so you will find | | | | the same routine and therefore you will stop |
| that you will need to eat more to maintain | | | | seeing any weight or body changes. |
| your weight and your muscle. You do not need | | | | |
| to worry that you will bulk up like a body | | | | So have fun and start weight training to lose |
| builder, as you do not have the right makeup | | | | weight and tone your body. |
| to do this, as a woman you will only elongate | | | | |