Stacy Helfinstine
A proper training program supplemented with a nutrition plan is the best means to ensuring success. Weight training is not only necessary for athletes looking to become stronger and more developed to assist with their game. Weight training can benefit people of all ages and personal goals. The greatest benefit of weight training on the body is the creation of lean body mass, which helps in burning calories. It seems like everyone starts out doing cardio type exercises when looking to tone up and burn body fat. These are fantastic for getting your heart beating and burning lots of calories. However, you will need to build your muscles mass up if you would like to keep those calories coming off even after you stop your exercise routine. This is one reason working out with weights will put your weight loss goals into overdrive.
This lean body mass is normally formed out of body fat. Weight training improves the body's sugar usage and thus helps maintain blood sugar levels. Weight training is also responsible from maintaining and reducing the blood pressure levels of the body, thus further helping to reduce a persons hypertensions. Studies have further shown that weight training, if done accurately and periodically, increases stamina, cardio vascular strength, and endurance levels. Weight training also greatly reduces the risk of stroke and cardio vascular heart diseases.
One pound of muscle mass added to your body can burn up to 50 extra calories each and every day. This keeps on working even when at rest. Can you picture the possibilities if you took off five pounds of fat and replaced this with pure muscle? By increasing the amount of muscle in the body, you are more likely to keep burning the calories much faster. This can help you to continue to lose weight further down the road.
Performing cardio exercises such as running, riding a bike, or taking a swim can burn a lot of calories in a short period of time, but this calorie expenditure will slow down as soon as the cardio has stopped. When you train with weights, the body will continue to burn additional calories even after the workout since it has to use energy to recover and heal the muscle. Over time, as you build up your endurance and can lift heavier weights you will burn more calories. The stronger you become the quicker those fat reserves will go away.
Cardio should not be completely replaced with weight training. Both methods of training hold benefits in different ways. While we talk about weight training to build muscle, cardio is still essential to keep a strong active cardiovascular system. Many researchers and analysts also believe that weight training with the right cardio exercises is known to reduce and control hypertension and supports the cardio vascular health functions of the body. Weight training has to be performed in presence of trained professionals and only with certified equipment.
12/05/08