Strength training and weight loss
“Going on a Diet” for most people means not eating anything or eating less than what is nutritionally required. But the truth is, “going on a diet” should not be “going off the diet”. weight loss and dieting is not simply about starving oneself to just to reduce your weight. Interestingly, it means eating the right food and burning the right amount of calories to put those fats away and keep that muscle mass. Otherwise, faulty dieting will only result in losing muscles and keeping those fats, with little to no improvement in your body weight.
Strength training is an effective way to achieve weight loss by burning those stored calories that make you gain fat. Unlike other physical fitness programs, strength training does not only burn the calories while performing the exercise and it burns even more calories by elevating the resting metabolism rate permanently. A resting metabolism rate is the average amount of calories that is metabolized by the body while at rest or mild work such as walking or standing. Since it counts for about 60 to 75% of your daily calorie expenditure, an increase in the resting metabolism rate will help you burn more fat without losing muscle mass. Performing strength training regularly will significantly contribute to permanent weight loss.
Another advantage of strength training over other fitness programs is the less time needed to perform the exercises. For example, while one needs to workout in a gym for at least two hours, you only need to regularly do a 30 minute workout once or thrice weekly. The exercises in a strength training program makes you work against resistance in order to boost workout intensity in order to develop muscle mass and stamina. Common methods of working out against resistance include weight lifting, elastic bands and body weights. By intensifying the workout levels, you boost metabolism in your muscle tissues which burns up to 50 calories per pound. By gaining another five pounds of muscle to your body through strength training, you can actually burn another 250 calories everyday by just resting or mild work. Doing strength training regularly will further increase your basal metabolic rate, transforming your body into a fat burning and muscle building machine.
In order to achieve maximum results, it is highly recommended to get advice from a fitness expert so you could not just only get started safely and prevent any injury, but also gain the best consequences. Your personal trainer can design a strength training program that is tailored for you. In order to gain maximum effects of weight loss through strength training, it is also important to listen to your body’s condition. Do not try to push your body further when you are too sick or when you feel unwell. Overstressing your body would not do you any good as this will only contribute to lower your physical aptitude and make you vulnerable to sickness and injury.