| People who go on a diet do so for a few main | | | | exercise routine. However, strength training should |
| reasons: to lose weight, to improve their overall | | | | also be included in your routine as well.Many |
| well-being or both. Many people who diet for | | | | people - particularly women, shy away from |
| weight loss fail to lose weight or, if they do lose, | | | | strength training exercise as they think that |
| fail to maintain the weight they lost.As any fitness | | | | strength training will cause them to "bulk up" and |
| expert will tell you, losing weight comes down to | | | | look unnatural. The image that many people have |
| two main factors: consuming less calories and | | | | about strength training is probably an unrealistic |
| exercising. This is so true that if someone | | | | one for most people. Unless you are a serious |
| significantly increases the amount of exercise | | | | bodybuilder, you will probably not gain the amount |
| they do but maintains the same caloric intake, | | | | of muscles mass that most bodybuilders have. It |
| they will almost certainly lose weight anyway. | | | | is important to emphasize, therefore, that if you |
| Forget all that you've heard about fad dieting - | | | | are trying to lose weight, strength training |
| the safest and smartest way to lose weight is | | | | exercise will help you to maintain the lean muscle |
| through combining diet with exercise.One of the | | | | mass that you already have underneath your |
| best forms of exercise to perform if you are | | | | body fat while you are in the process of losing |
| trying to lose weight is strength training. Contrary | | | | weight. In the end what you will have is a greater |
| to what you may think, strength training may be | | | | proportion of lean body mass to body fat. This |
| more important than aerobic exercise for weight | | | | means you will be thinner but you will have the |
| loss because although it increases muscle tissue, | | | | muscle and strength that you had when you |
| strength training burns more fat than aerobic | | | | were overweight.Unfortunately, many people who |
| exercise. Of course, this is not to say that people | | | | go on rapid weight loss programs will usually lose a |
| who are overweight should not perform aerobic | | | | good deal of their muscle mass along with the fat |
| exercise - as aerobic exercise has its place in any | | | | they lose. |