I have a friend who hates weight exercises. She said to me: “Hey, why did my fitness instructor force me to work with those heavy dumbbells? He said, if I want to burn my fat, I must do it. It doesn’t make sense! Get sweating, that’s how you burn fat!”. So, here’s my answer...

You are right, and so does your instructor. High impact activities that make you sweating do burn fat and remove toxins from your body. But weight exercises will optimize the fat burning even more. Let’s analyze your own body,

Muscles are like the engine in your car, it does the burning job. So, in order to optimize the fat burning in your body, you need to build muscles. And the only way to build muscles is having weight exercises or muscle exercises. The most effective exercise is when you have aerobics, and then improve the fat burning with weight exercises. Please remember that one kilogram of muscles can burn 60 calories more. In addition, muscles will help you in shapping a better posture and in your activities (jumping, running, walking).

We need calories in our body for some reasons. Total calories that we need when we are resting is called RMR (Resting Metabolic Rate). Weight exercises increase your RMR better than aerobics, as weight exercises build more muscles. These are how our metabolism works,

5-10% of energy is needed to burn food we intake into energy

20% is useful for us in having physical activities, including sports

75% is needed by the RMR

As the biggest consumer of energy, it’s logical to use it to help your fat burning and weight loss.

Anti Aging

“If you’re still not sure about it..”, I said to my friend, “..weight exercises can also slowing aging process. You see, soon after your age going thirties, the growth hormone inside your body, which maintain muscles, is decreasing. Without weight exercises, it will keep decreasing, and our muscles function will also weaker.

And, as you have already known, without muscles, the fat burning will also decrease. If you see some ladies in their fourties who have a toned body at the gym, that’s because they do routine exercises, especially weight exercises.

So...what are you waiting for? Wear your fitness suits and get our dumbbells, then let’s get exercised!”

More About Weight Training for Woman...

Women's Strength Training Anatomy
by: Frederic Delavier

With information on strengthening and toning the legs, buttocks, abs, and back, Women's Strength Training Anatomy provides full-color, detailed anatomical illustrations of exercises for these hard-to-shape areas. What makes this book unique is that readers can see the muscles at work during each exercise, like an X ray of the body in motion. Exercise variations based on a woman's unique anatomical features are also covered, helping to isolate muscles and make each exercise more effective.

Smart Girls Do Dumbbells
by: Judith Sherman-Wolin

You've probably been dieting and exercising-or trying to-your entire life. You lose the weight; you gain it back. Or you lose most of the weight, but can't get those last stubborn 5 to 10 pounds to budge an inch. Why don't you have the body you always wanted? You may not know the real secrets of strength training and the magic of dumbbells. Judith Sherman-Wolin has developed a fast and easy dumbbell program that you can do at home and set up for less than it costs to go to a gym every month.

Strong Women Stay Slim
by: Miriam Nelson

The basis of this book is simple: because muscle is metabolically active and fat is not, when you increase your muscle mass, you're able to burn more calories, even when at rest. The author has shown that of a group of women who followed a special weight-loss diet, those who also did weight-training exercises lost 44 percent more fat than the other women and increased their overall metabolic rates by up to 15 percent. For those who are skeptical of weight-loss books, rest assured that this one won't disappoint!

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