Burn The Fat Weight Training
The secret to effectively lose fat, and get rid of belly fat, is not just a good nutritional diet and a cardio program. You need to include weight or resistance training in your burn the fat program. Without weight training you will begin to lose muscle mass while you are reducing fat.
Your muscles are a metabolic active tissue that burns fat, and weight training builds muscle. So if you don’t include weight training in your fat burning program you will not only lose muscle mass (become weak) but you will lose some the fat burning capabilities of your body.
Don’t confuse weight training with bodybuilding.
The weight training we are talking about here is to stay in shape, get in shape, and to not lose muscle mass while dieting and cardio training. Bodybuilding is aimed at gaining muscle mass. If getting bigger muscles is something you want to accomplish during your fat burning program, you can do that by the type of weight training program that is set up for you.
Weight training for a fat loss program is included primarily so you don’t lose muscle mass, and therefore increase your metabolic rate.
The real beauty of a burn the fat weight training program is that your metabolic rate not only increases during your workout, but remains at an elevated level for a few hours after you are done. That means, simply put, that after your workout you are burning fat to replenish your muscles. You can’t beat that. Don’t think though that just because weight training is so effective you should do it every day.
Never do weight training more than two day in a row. You need to take the time for your muscles to recover from their workout, and the only time they can do that is during rest. Always remember that for a muscle, no rest means no growth, and if the muscle is always under stress you will actually lose size. And losing muscle mass will decrease the your metabolic rate and result in a decrease in fat burning.
Now we have:
- a good diet of putting the right types of calories into our body.
- a cardio program the burns calories while we are exercising
- a weight training program that burns calories for a few hours after we are done.
The only thing missing is our motivation to keep us going.
Great points. I also want to let everyone acknowledge the importance of taking weight loss at a slow pace. I am a hardgainer and I know patience. Trust me.
In order for people to lose weight, they must begin slow. Slowly cut things out of your diet. Slowly begin a workout routine. Slowly work your weight off. The quicker you try to do things, the quicker you’ll probably give up.
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