| Weight training does burn off fat, but not all types | | | | Women are often hesitant to perform weight |
| of weight training will burn fat. That's just one of | | | | training for fat and weight loss because they don't |
| the several myths related to fat loss through | | | | want to get all bulked up. The truth is that |
| weight training. As with any weight and fat loss | | | | women's muscles aren't designed to bulk up, and |
| regimens, there are "Do's and Don'ts," and you | | | | it takes steroids and years of hard weight training |
| have to remember to keep everything in balance | | | | for women body builders to achieve that kind of |
| so as not to stress out your body and actually | | | | muscle mass. Resistance weight training in women |
| gain weight and fat. | | | | actually reduces muscle mass by eliminating the |
| Contrary to popular belief, weight training alone | | | | fat "marbling," just like you see in a beef steak, |
| doesn't do much to reduce body fat weight. | | | | from the muscle tissue. You may gain a |
| Expert weight trainers know this and advise both | | | | healthy-looking muscle definition, and your |
| body builders and those who just want to lose | | | | strength will definitely increase, but you won't bulk |
| weight and body fat to look and feel better, to | | | | up, as men will. |
| use weight training with an appropriate diet, and | | | | Resistance weight training, also called strength |
| aerobic and toning exercises, to obtain the best | | | | weight training, increases your lean body mass |
| results. Experts in weight training agree with health | | | | and raises your resting metabolic rate. Studies |
| and medical professionals that overall good health | | | | have shown that by resistance training of each |
| is the target goal, and that the correct weight and | | | | muscle group in your body for just 15 seconds |
| amount of body fat are merely benefits of | | | | per day, you can actually burn body fat. The way |
| reaching and maintaining your overall good health. | | | | this happens is that when you diet and burn |
| The myths of using weight training to lose weight | | | | calories through aerobic exercise, the body uses |
| and body fat have produced a lot of frustrated, | | | | up the stored water and sugar-glycogen-in your |
| disillusioned people. For instance, doing leg raises | | | | organs and taps into other glycogen supplies in |
| does nothing for lower abdominal muscles toward | | | | the less frequently used muscles of your body, |
| reducing fat in that area. The "burn" associated | | | | depleting their lean mass. Your body thinks it |
| with high repetition doesn't indicate fat or weight | | | | doesn't need these muscles, so it takes lean mass |
| loss, but repetition does build muscle endurance, | | | | from them instead of from fat stores. Resistance |
| and higher endurance helps in performing the | | | | weight training all the muscle groups in your body |
| aerobic exercise that you need to lose weight and | | | | brings them to your body's attention, showing it |
| burn fat. You may expect intensive weight training | | | | that these muscles are necessary, so it starts |
| to make you lose weight, and this isn't necessarily | | | | tapping into the fat stores to fuel these muscles |
| the case. In intensive weight training with a low | | | | too. |
| fat and low sugar diet, body fat is converted into | | | | With weight training, coordinated with reduced |
| muscle tissue, so the weight isn't really lost, it's | | | | calorie intake and aerobic exercise, and patience, |
| just transferred to a different, albeit in a healthy | | | | you can lose the fat and weight you need to be |
| way, part of the body. | | | | healthy. |