Resistance Training For Fat Loss From a St Johns Wood Personal Trainer
Posted: Saturday, July 07, 2007
by Imran Ilahi
Energie Personal Fitness
Resistance training is a very important component of your fitness program.
The biggest mistake people make is that they feel aerobic exercise and diet is the solution to their fat loss.
The reason why resistance training is so important is the role it plays in metabolism.
By performing resistance training you increase your muscle mass which increases your body's utilization of calories.
Which means an increase in muscle mass will increase your Basal Metabolic Rate, or the amount of calories your body requires to sustain life. So even if you consume the same amount of calories and have more muscle, you will be in a negative energy balance. This will result in fat loss.
Resistance Training will also help with an increase in your metabolism post exercise, up to 48hrs after to aid muscle recovery.
Muscle uses energy. Each pound of lean muscle tissue burns 35-50 calories a day while body fat burns 2 calories a day. The more muscle you have the more fat you burn.
When performing resistance training for fat loss use compound exercisers over isolation exercises.
Compound exercises include squat, lunge, deadlift, bench press, barbell row, lat pulldown, shoulder press. These exercises target more muscles thus burning more calories.
You should also change your resistance training program variables (sets, reps, rest, load, and tempo) every 4 weeks. This will help your body from not hitting a plateau.
As part of your resistance training program you will also improve your posture, you will increase your muscle tendon, ligament and bone strength as well as increase your joint stability.
Start today and become a fat burning machine.
About The Author
Imran Ilahi is the owner and operator of www.xpress-fitness.com. Imran specialises in fat loss and guarantees to transform your body in 12 weeks or receive your money back.
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