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July 07, 2005
Weight training to burn more fat
I get this question associated with the topic of aerobic vs. weight training so much from my readers I decided to answer it on my blog.
When discussing exercise and weight loss, most people will equate aerobic exercise with weight loss, burning calories or expending calories and most of these individuals don't understand that to be very effective, or more efficient at fat loss, weight training or strength training and building muscle is far more effective at producing the greatest gains in fat loss. So, it is very important to establish a muscle building and resistance training workout to when you are considering a weight loss plan. The reasons for this are that, for every pound of muscle that you gain you can expend 45 to 75 calories at rest. In exercise science it has been known that a woman performing aerobic exercise only expends calories when that individual is actually doing the aerobic exercise. It has no residual effect, only muscle building, or the hypertrophy of muscle has the residual effect on consistent calorie expenditure.
Posted by Rocco at July 7, 2005 01:09 PM
