👉 Strength Training and Weight Loss (Part 1)
Strength Training and Weight Loss (Part 2) :
Let's say you happen to be quite obese and you have a high percentage of
body fat. I used to be in that situation; I know what it feels like.
Underneath that body fat you actually have a very strong skeleton and
strong muscles. Your body has built up those muscles in order to carry
all of that extra body fat when you move your body. Just the very act of
standing up, walking across a parking lot, going up a flight of stairs
or lifting your arms requires more effort when you're overweight,
especially if you're obese. So the heavier you are, the stronger your
muscles have to be just to allow you to do basic, everyday things.
The
solution to all of this, the strategy I want to focus on here, is to
engage in strength training while you are losing body fat. If you do
this, then you will be able to maintain the muscle mass that you already
have underneath your body fat while you are in the process of losing
the fat. This will leave you with a greater proportion of lean body mass
to body fat, meaning that you will be slimmer, yet you'll have the
muscles that you had when you were overweight.
If you get rid of
enough body fat in this way, then those muscles may begin to show -- if
you're a man. If you're a woman, don't worry. You're never going to bulk
up. A lot of women are mistakenly afraid of strength training. They
think that if they pump a few weights they're going to turn into Lou
Ferrigno overnight. They think they're going to have this competition
muscle-bound body from lifting a couple of weights. Believe me, that is
not the case at all. Most of those bodybuilding women are using
steroids, and they've trained for years, even decades, just to produce
that kind of muscle mass. Women are not built to puts on lots of muscle
mass, so don't be afraid that you'll bulk up. Women who are afraid of
exercising because they think it's going to make them look bigger have
it all wrong.
Strength training and weight loss are so important
for overweight people because strength training and weight loss leads to
a healthy life, a nice body and will keep you in a good shape.
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