How you burn fat through weight training

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When it comes to burning fat, many people tend to practice lots of cardiovascular exercises and miss the benefits of weight training.

Some medical authorities even guess that weight training is used for growing bulk muscles, not to lose weight. This article will explain that this is a wrong assumption, because the growing of muscle mass will eventually burn fat calories.

According to a study by the Fitness Products Council and Sporting Goods Manufacturers, the number of people lifting free weights has increased 76 percent in the past decade.

And this is a great tendency, because combining cardiovascular activity with weight training results in more effective fat loss. During and shortly after the end of exercising, your muscle metabolism arises.

The main benefits of weight lifting exercises are more prolonged increase of muscle metabolism, long after you’ve finished doing weight lifting session. The most adequate weight training exercises include 1 to 20 repetitions. During the rest period your muscles will develop, tissues leaning and getting stronger, so your rest periods should be sufficient enough.

In order to effectively tone or build your muscles, you should understand the process of muscle training. When lifting weights, muscle tissues are torn apart (at the microscopic level) from the stress, and it's in the recuperation period that your muscles become stronger and therefore able to support the extra stress. Usually it is recommended that you rest from 24 to 48 hours after the weight lifting activity.

While your muscles have rest after the weight activity, the muscle metabolism still burns the energy, and you can start performing cardiovascular activity during this period. If you make high repetitions, your body gets tired, but not like after weight lifting. If you caombine low repetitions of weight lifting and high repetitions of cardiovascular exercises, the overall fat burning effect will increase dramatically!

Weight lifting definitely help people lose weight, and if you have doubts look at the atheletes who specialize in short, intense bursts of energy and you still see that they are very low in body fat.

The point is to combine a weight lifting routine with a good cardiovascular workout to increase muscle metabolism and total fat burning ratio.

You should avoid quick weight loss schemes, as this can lead to losing lots of muscle mass. Muscle mass is the exact source high metabolism, so starvation and other quick diets should be avoided, as they are based on temporary effect. After you stop quick weight loss scheme, your weight will return back in most cases.

Instead, concentrate on combining of weight exercises and cardiovascular activity, and let your muscles build up and increase your metabolism. The results will last much longer.