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