Weight training for weight loss

Many people associate weight training not with losing weight but with massive male body builders and muscle mass, but the fact is that weight training holds one of the keys to weight loss.

If you have read our article on calorific deficit (using up more calories than you take in) then you will understand this easily. The key to weight loss is using up as many possible calories per day as we can, so when we exercise for weight loss, we need to perform exercises that use the most calories, simple.

Now, you may think that running for hours on end will burn the most calories and cause the most weight loss but this is untrue, and unrealistic! It is in fact weight training that uses the most calories due to the energy and effort needed. Exercises like the weighted squat, the weighted lunge and the lat pull down burn extremely high amounts of calories because of the large muscles groups needed to perform the exercise.

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