| Weight training does burn off fat, but not | | | | the body. |
| all types of weight training will burn fat. | | | | |
| That's just one of the several myths related | | | | Women are often hesitant to perform weight |
| to fat loss through weight training. As with | | | | training for fat and weight loss because they |
| any weight and fat loss regimens, there are | | | | don't want to get all bulked up. The truth |
| "Do's and Don'ts," and you have to remember | | | | is that women's muscles aren't designed to |
| to keep everything in balance so as not to | | | | bulk up, and it takes steroids and years of |
| stress out your body and actually gain weight | | | | hard weight training for women body builders |
| and fat. | | | | to achieve that kind of muscle mass. |
| | | | Resistance weight training in women actually |
| Contrary to popular belief, weight training | | | | reduces muscle mass by eliminating the fat |
| alone doesn't do much to reduce body fat | | | | "marbling," just like you see in a beef |
| weight. Expert weight trainers know this and | | | | steak, from the muscle tissue. You may gain |
| advise both body builders and those who just | | | | a healthy-looking muscle definition, and your |
| want to lose weight and body fat to look and | | | | strength will definitely increase, but you |
| feel better, to use weight training with an | | | | won't bulk up, as men will. |
| appropriate diet, and aerobic and toning | | | | |
| exercises, to obtain the best results. | | | | Resistance weight training, also called |
| Experts in weight training agree with health | | | | strength weight training, increases your lean |
| and medical professionals that overall good | | | | body mass and raises your resting metabolic |
| health is the target goal, and that the | | | | rate. Studies have shown that by resistance |
| correct weight and amount of body fat are | | | | training of each muscle group in your body |
| merely benefits of reaching and maintaining | | | | for just 15 seconds per day, you can actually |
| your overall good health. | | | | burn body fat. The way this happens is that |
| | | | when you diet and burn calories through |
| The myths of using weight training to lose | | | | aerobic exercise, the body uses up the stored |
| weight and body fat have produced a lot of | | | | water and sugar-glycogen-in your organs and |
| frustrated, disillusioned people. For | | | | taps into other glycogen supplies in the less |
| instance, doing leg raises does nothing for | | | | frequently used muscles of your body, |
| lower abdominal muscles toward reducing fat | | | | depleting their lean mass. Your body thinks |
| in that area. The "burn" associated with | | | | it doesn't need these muscles, so it takes |
| high repetition doesn't indicate fat or | | | | lean mass from them instead of from fat |
| weight loss, but repetition does build muscle | | | | stores. Resistance weight training all the |
| endurance, and higher endurance helps in | | | | muscle groups in your body brings them to |
| performing the aerobic exercise that you need | | | | your body's attention, showing it that these |
| to lose weight and burn fat. You may expect | | | | muscles are necessary, so it starts tapping |
| intensive weight training to make you lose | | | | into the fat stores to fuel these muscles |
| weight, and this isn't necessarily the case. | | | | too. |
| In intensive weight training with a low fat | | | | |
| and low sugar diet, body fat is converted | | | | With weight training, coordinated with |
| into muscle tissue, so the weight isn't | | | | reduced calorie intake and aerobic exercise, |
| really lost, it's just transferred to a | | | | and patience, you can lose the fat and weight |
| different, albeit in a healthy way, part of | | | | you need to be healthy. |