The facts about weight lifting

We have all heard many people say it, You lift weights and you get huge. While there is some truth to this you shouldn’t necessarily disregard weight lifting if a body builders physique isn’t what your aiming for.

Any physical activity that you do that’s burning calories will help you to burn fat and there are advantages to lifting weights besides just getting big. For example you may hear a woman proudly exclaim how she plans to begin lifting weights to get in shape. To which another one will answer “you’re crazy! do you really want to have those big manly arms?” The idea is that as you gain muscle and burn fat your muscle will replace where your fat used to be so you may not be as big as you had assumed that you would be. Just because you lift doesn’t mean you will look like Dwayne Johnson. But if that’s what your going for by all mean break out those heavy weights and get to work. But we’ll save that for a different article.

Did you know that for… Every 1 pound of muscle you build, you burn 50 calories a day while doing absolutely nothing!

So how incredible is it that after you have worked to get in shape your body continues to work so that you can stay that way! Let’s say for example that you have been working hard and you have packed on about 10 pounds of muscle. BAM! your RMR (Resting metabolic rate) has went up by another by 500 calories; meaning that while your body is at rest (like sitting on the couch and watching your favorite movie ;) ) your body is burning off that extra 500 calories.

One fact that is very important but not as well known as it should be is that when many people switch to a lower calorie diet and are losing weight they are also losing muscle because your body can only support so much fat loss within a days time ( this is why it is important to figure out your daily nutrition needs) and when you are doing strength training exercises to lose weight such as weightlifting you are building onto your muscle and in the end saving yourself from losing a lot of muscle mass.

They’re are many of people who wake up one morning step onto the scale decide it’s time to lose weight and begin starving themselves. But in doing so they are also starving their body of necessary nutrients and are starting a very unhealthy habit and isn’t health the reason behind getting in shape anyways?

Another misconception is that weight lifting is too hard and that some people just can’t lift. Of course it’s not going to be easy as soon as you start out. It will take time for you to be able to do as much lifting as you desire because your starting something that your body isn’t used to yet, and lets face it if it’s easy than you can probably assume that you aren’t doing the exercise correctly and that there will be no results. But as you get stronger you will be able to do more exercises for longer and perhaps even with heavier weights if you so choose.

Keeping off the weight

Congratulations! You’ve worked really hard and you’ve made it to your goal or at least almost. So now what do you do to keep the weight off and maintain your incredible new body? Well one might believe that just because you’ve built muscle and your body will now burn off more calories that you can eat more junk and that you won’t gain the weight back, and on paper that makes perfect sense. But look at it this way… You know that pizza and large soda aren’t doing your body any good, right? so if it’s not doing good than it must be doing bad. That’s not to say that you can never have a slice of pizza again, you just need to be careful with how much and how often you are eating it as well as what kind of pizza you are eating or whatever your guilty pleasure may be. As far as the soda goes that’s a big NOOOO! Soda is just empty calories that are giving you tons of stuff you don’t need in your body with nothing good in return.

In order to keep up on your new fit body you probably don’t need to workout as hard and as often as in the beginning but you should continue with a workout routine at least 3 times a week and if you’ve already begun to see real results and have become stronger than your regular routine shouldn’t be as difficult as it once was anyways.

Conclusion

So to answer the question Does weightlifting burn fat? The answer is Yes! Weightlifting does burn fat and those muscles that you’ve developed  over time will even help you to keep it off as long as you persevere and push your self towards your goal even when the going gets tough.

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