How to Eliminate Weight Loss Failure by Lifting Weights: The Secret Everyone Ignores

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Many times, when one begins a new fat loss regime; they focus on

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How to Eliminate Weight Loss Failure by Lifting Weights: The Secret Everyone

Ignores

Copyright © 2005 ny Lavot

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Many times, when one begins a new fat loss regime; they focus on

dieting (hopefully intelligent dieting, not fad diets or very low

calorie diets) and hopefully an exercise regime. Most of the

time, to accomplish fat loss, people seem to believe that aerobic

(aka. cardio) training in addition to a moderate reduction in

calories is the best course of action to accomplish this. The

main goal is to create a caloric deficit through these methods so

that the body must use fat stores to make up for the deficit,

therefore accomplishing fat loss. However, many times people run

into a plateau that is caused by the lowering of the metabolism

due to muscle loss because of the new diet and exercise regime.

This lowering of the metabolism is known as the starvation

response. You've experienced this if you've ever tried to lose

fat before and eventually, even though you may have tried very

hard, you seemed to not be able to lose anymore fat.

Aerobic training is the chief way you will burn fat during

exercise, and will greatly help to avoid the starvation response

compared to changing the diet alone (dieting only, without any

exercise will cause it to a much greater degree - but that is the

subject for another article - you can find more information at

http://www.weight-loss-resources.com). However, dieting and

training aerobically can still eat away some of your muscle

anyway - unless you know what you're doing. When one weight

trains in addition to cardio and intelligent dieting, the body

signals a response to keep muscle. Because muscle is one of the

major factors that dictates your metabolism at rest, keeping

muscle will help you to steer clear of the dreaded starvation

response.

In my opinion, the weight lifting part of your exercise program

should be the core - it is the meat. While aerobic training is

like the steak sauce that goes along with your meat. Cardio is

not totally necessary, but it will increase your rate of fat loss

in comparison to dieting and weight lifting alone. Weight

lifting will increase your muscle mass (cardio does not), which

increases your resting metabolism, which helps you to create a

healthy caloric deficit. One pound of muscle will burn an

additional 35 to 50 calories per day. So, simply gaining 4

pounds of muscle is approximately equivalent to walking for an

hour each day. Also, during a weight lifting workout, you are

burning calories anyway - don't think that lifting weights does

not use up your energy. Another spiffy benefit of weight training

is its effect on the body after the workout. This is known as

the glowing effect or EPOC - which stands for exercise post

oxygen consumption. Essentially, your body must recover from the

muscle tears you just imposed upon it, and that requires calories

too.

One thing that strict dieting and aerobic exercise can do is

cause people to lose so much fat and muscle (as stated before),

that a skinny, yet unhealthy and unattractive look is created.

In the sense of attractiveness, skinny may look better than fat,

but when you have a low body fat percentage and also a healthy

dose of muscle tone (male or female), you feel and look much more

attractive and healthier (the healthier you look, the more

attractive you look) to the opposite sex.

It seems that one reason that many women avoid weight training is

for fear that they will become " bulky " . More than likely, this

belief was created after seeing some overly (and sometimes manly)

muscular fitness models on T.V. and in magazines. Well, 99% of

those women probably take some sort of hormone or steroid

compound; otherwise they wouldn't look as manly as they do. They

also follow extremely strict diet and training regimes to attain

that level of fitness. However, if you are a woman you probably

aren’t going to be doing or taking the things those people do.

Even if you really wanted to, you would have trouble looking like

that. Weight training will not do that to you - even if it did,

you can easily stop or turn your weight training regime into a

maintenance phase. You are in total control of how muscular you

want to become.

If you're goal is fat loss, remember to incorporate weight

training into your exercise regime along with cardio and

intelligent dieting. The combination of these three things is

the key to achieving your goals and sculpting your body without

hitting plateaus. You have nothing to lose by weight training

except the fat. You can find more information on achieving your

weight loss goals at http://www.weight-loss-resources.com.

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ny Lavot is an avid weight-loss and fitness researcher.

You can find tons more information on these topics at

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