Weight Training For FAT LOSS

By: Brigitte Brodski

Article Summary: Muscle raises your Resting Metabolic Rate which helps burn fat. Weight training keeps your metabolism elevated for an hour. Perform each workout for 4 weeks before going on to the next one.

Weight Workouts To Lose Fat

You live a fit lifestyle year round but sometimes we realize the occasional junk food has begun to show its effects. Being the educated fitness diva you know it's time to start dieting and cater your workout to achieve your goal.

But for some reason when us women decide it's time to lose fat, the first thing we tend to do is jump onto cardio, and weight training is not prioritized.

Whether it's because the calorie burning advantages aren't recognized, we think weight training is to build muscle and not burn fat, we think we can't focus on lifting and losing fat at the same time, we don't know how to do an efficient weight training program, or whatever the reason, somehow we tend to put the weights back on the rack when we want to focus on losing fat.

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Weight Training Burns Fat.

Although there are many benefits of cardio for fat loss, this article covers the advantages of using various weight training programs to lose fat.

24/7 Metabolism Boost

First off, I'll repeat what you've probably heard many times: "Muscle burns fat". But what does that mean? Well, muscle doesn't exactly burn fat but more accurately muscle raises your Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR).

Adipose tissue (i.e. fat) takes no energy to sit on your body, that's why once it's there it will stay there 'till you exert enough energy to start using it as your energy source. Skeletal muscle tissue is called "active tissue" because it requires energy to maintain itself. To just sit on your body, each pound of muscle on your body uses about 30-60 calories per day.