This article
discusses several strategies for effective and permanent weight loss.
Today
I will be examining the use of strength training to lose weight rather
than traditional diets and fads you see on the Internet or television.
If you want any weight loss
program to work you have to perform strength training exercises. It's
absolutely
imperative during the course of a lifetime not only for weight loss
goals
but also for general health and well-being.
For years we have been told
to diet the excess fat from our bodies and throw in some fast walking
to
hasten the process. The trouble with this is that the low calorie
restricted
diet would throw the body into starvation mode, with the body holding
onto
the fat and using precious lean muscle tissue for energy.
This would lower your metabolism
causing greater muscle loss. Once the diet was broken, the original fat
would return and you would have greater chance of gaining even more fat.
"A Vicious Cycle"
Eventually, your body would
become used to the diet and then you will reach a point where nothing
was
happening.
So what do you do now?
Try weight loss supplements,
creams, massage, toning tables, drugs. You should know by now that
these
don't work.
There is a better way, it's
simply...
"Strength Training"
Many studies are showing
that strength training is a superior method for weight loss. Ladies,
you
won't bulk up by using weights, you don't have the testosterone to get
big and muscular, so don't worry.
If you don't incorporate
strength training into your weight loss program then look forward to
"disappointing
results".
The days of strength training
three to five days a week in the gym, an hour at a time, are long gone.
That just doesn't work. One short strength-training workout a week done
at home or in the gym will melt away more fat than you would have ever
thought possible.
Tomorrow I will examine fats
and the role of proper nutrition to help you lose weight.
Posted by Gary. Website can be found at http://www.maximumfitness.com
Posted
on: Tuesday August 30, 2005 9:32 am
