Lift weights and lose weight

Yes, you can lift weights and lose weight. Aerobic exercise burns calories while you're doing the activity and for an hour or two after. But the weightlifting training/strength/endurance training (i.e., free weights, Bowflex machines or groups of resistance) actually changes your body composition with the building of lean muscle tissue, making your body more efficient fat burning machine. (So you're also burn more calories during sleep.) Let me explain further ...

Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the rate at which your body burns calories while you're at rest. You can change your BMR by increasing the amount of muscle or lean body mass, on your body.

Muscle tissue, as active, burn calories to keep both herself and the physical movement of fuel. Grease, which serves primarily to insulate the body needs calories to sustain its cellular activity. Therefore, the more muscle you have, the more total calories burned-even while your body is at rest.

Contrary to popular belief, reduction of calories can help you lose weight, but only temporarily. Is your metabolism, or the speed at which your body burns calories for energy that determines how fast the weight will come off and how long it will remain out.

Diets can slow down your metabolism and cause weight gain. Studies have shown that low-calorie dieting (less than 1000 calories per day) can decrease the metabolic rate as much as 15-30%.

A fad diet, you will probably lose extra pounds initially, but the body regulate the metabolic rate to survive on fewer calories. Then, when you eat more food to satisfy your hunger, which not only will regain the lost weight, but also put on more pounds, because your metabolism is slowed down to accommodate 1000 calories diet.

Burn calories through exercise is recommended to simply reduce the amount of food consumed. The body is not thought to have died of hunger and, therefore, do not respond to slow the rate at which it metabolizes food.

Many myths surround the strength training and women, in particular the idea that gives great women bulky muscles. Many women did not lift weights for that reason.

Muscular development is dependent on the male hormone testosterone. Women have less testosterone than men and so are much less likely to build big muscles. In addition, it takes months of intensive weight training to develop the muscles bodybuilder-dimensions.

With a normal, moderate lifting weights or resistance training regime, women are more likely to achieve a more slender body shape, toned due to Boost metabolism and consequent loss of fat.