Weight Training Benefits

More lean muscle tissues you have, you will burn more body fat. And the best way to build lean muscles is to go with weight training.

Let's talk about weight training benefits:

1. Weight training tones your muscles which looks great and raises your basal metabolism... which causes you to burn more calories 24 hours-a-day. You'll even burn more calories while you're sleeping.
2. Weight training can *reverse* the natural decline in your metabolism which begins around age 30.
3. Weight training energizes you.
4. Weight training has a positive affect on almost all of your 650+ muscles.
5. Weight training strengthens your bones reducing your risk of developing osteoporosis.
6. Weight training improves your muscular endurance.
7. Weight training will NOT develop big muscles on women....just toned muscles!
8. Weight training makes you strong. Strength gives you confidence and makes daily activities easier.
9. Weight training makes you less prone to low-back injuries.
10. Weight training decreases your resting blood pressure.
11. Weight training decreases your risk of developing adult onset diabetes.
12. Weight training decreases your gastrointestinal transit time, reducing your risk for developing colon cancer.
13. Weight training increases your blood level of HDL cholesterol (the good type).
14. Weight training improves your posture.
15. Weight training improves the functioning of your immune system.
16. Weight training lowers your resting heart rate, a sign of a more efficient heart.
17. Weight training improves your balance and coordination.
18. Weight training elevates your mood.


Elevate your metabolism with weight training

So many crazy diets out there, so many new diet commercials on TV, diet books, fat burning pills. But do they really work? What is a science behind it? Any scientific background to back it up? Usually when they do not have any science behind it, they hire a celebrity (movie star, rock star, model) to promote their products. Very sad. But it is true.
But let's talk about science and what scientists say about how you can burn body fat and not what Hollywood diets want you to believe.

Researchers from Wisconsin University found out that training with weights at fairly high intensities (70% of your max) can boost your metabolism for up to two days after a workout.
What happens with your body is following:
- your muscle temperature will increase
- energy production will be increased within your body
- Uncoupling proteins are stimulated. These proteins cause cells to metabolize and you will burn body fat (release excess energy).
Uncoupling proteins are a unique group of closely related proteins that are known to be involved in thermogenesis and play important roles in obesity, diabetes, fatty acid metabolism, suppression of oxygen radicals and nuerodegeneration.

Weight training will demage your muscle cells and that requires energy (calories) to repair your muscle fibers. This burns calories also.

Now you know if you want to burn body fat, you have to do weight training in combination with science based nutrition.


Become lean and mean fat burning machine
More muscle you have, you will burn more fat. I am sure you heard that 100X. But why is that? I will give you some reasons:

Muscle is an active tissue. A pound of muscle burns 30 to 50 calories per day just to maintain itself. Add three pounds of muscle and burn 630 to 1,050 extra calories per week. A pound of fat only burns 3 calories per day. So you can see by lifting weights and gaining muscle you will burn more calories every day. Imagine if you gain 9 lbs of lean muscle, you will become fat burning machine and you will
be burning around 3150 extra calories per week.
That's why you should exercise if you are serious about burning body fat. Diet alone will not do the trick even if it comes from Hollywood.