Women’s Health and Fitness – Weight Training To Lose Weight

February 22, 2010 by Wredants  
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Weight gain is a lot easier as you grow older particularly as the motivation to exercise also wanes, but you can turn it around it does not matter how old you are.  You should start to weave some sort of exercise into your daily life.

One type of exercise that you should consider to do is weight training, also known as strength training or resistance training.  Weight training will not only help with losing weight but will also trim and tone your body. Age does not matter it has been shown that women as old as 70 who have started to weight train and have improved their body strength within a very short while.

Weight training is an important element in fighting flab; maybe it is the most important.  If you do aerobic exercise you only burn fat during the exercise but with weight training you burn fat even when you have finished.  The body is still burning fat for up to as much as twelve hours after finishing the exercise whilst it is building the muscles worked, so you can still be burning fat while you are resting.  But that is not the end of the story.

A body full of muscle uses far more calories than a body full of fat, so you will find that you will need to eat more to maintain your weight and your muscle.   You do not need to worry that you will bulk up like a body builder, as you do not have the right makeup to do this, as a woman you will only elongate and define your muscles, and build lean muscles.

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When you first start to weight train you might find that your weight will actually increase. This is because muscle is heavier than fat but as muscle is smaller so you should notice the body getting smaller even if the scales do not show an decrease in weight.

The additional benefits from weight training are:-

1. It helps to strengthen and increase the density of your bones because the act of the muscles pulling and flexing the bones helps to lay down more bone fibre.

2.  Stronger muscles helps your body to be more steady and so helps to prevent falls.

3.  It has also been found that it can fight the build up of abdominal fat by lifting weights at least twice a week.

Finally when weight training make sure that you change your routine around so that the body can not get use to the routine.  It only takes the body about six weeks for it to learn how to work efficiently if keeping to the same routine and therefore you will stop seeing any weight or body changes.

So have fun and start weight training to lose weight and tone your body.

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You would be surprise how many people ignore weight/strength training when evaluating an exercise plan, especially women, because they think it will make them “bulk up.”

What you need to know is that building more muscle with resistance exercises is an essential part of a well rounded fitness program, especially if one of your goals is to lose excess bodyfat.

A higher intensity in your resistance training will give you a number of positive changes on a enzymatic, hormonal, chemical, and molecular levels in your body, all of which help to slow down, and even stop most diseases caused by inactive lifestyles.

Thus resistance training is essential to preventing common metabolic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, osteoperoisis, as well as other symptoms of aging like declining range of motion, pain and aches, and even prevention of muscle wasting.

How Strength Training Fights Osteoporosis

One of the most effective tools to preventing osteoporosis is weight bearing exercise.

When looking to improve bone density, drugs are the last thing to consider because without questions they are more likely to lead to long term harm instead of benefit.

Bones are amazingly porous and soft, but as they age they often become less dense thus more brittle, specially if we are inactive.

Resistance training combats this because by putting more tension on the muscles they put more pressure on the bones, and they respond by creating new, fresh bone.

Not only that, but getting stronger and building more muscle not only puts more pressure on our bones but, puts constant pressure on them.

When looking for exercises to build strong bones the best ones are compound exercises that use multiple muscle groups. One of my favorite exercises is the Split Squat. It is an exercise everyone can do and is a perfect bodyweight exercise for those of you just starting out, and it builds bone density in the hips.

Not only that but weight training has been shown to naturally increase testosterone, which not only increases your energy levels, but is highly correlated to strong healthy bones.

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Losing Belly Fat in Women – Lose Fat Easily and Permanently

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Losing fat successfully is a real challenge and a very difficult task to accomplish. The worst thing is that a lot of people are not looking out for the best interests of the people. Weight loss is a huge business and more overweight people means more money. The lifestyle we live also causes our health to decline and our weight to increase. But it does not have to be that way, everything can be changed.

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  • Strength training or weight training, what ever you want to call it, is really one of the best ways to keep us healthy and believe it or not, but also lose weight. There are a lot of misconceptions and false beliefs about strength training, especially amongst women. The myths about strength training are very wrong.
  • When you lift weights regularly, then you will not turn into a muscle monster and look like a man. Instead you will look like a real women, with all the right curves in the right place. It is very hard for women to build any kind of considerable muscles, because women do not have enough testosterone.
  • Lifting weights helps you burn fat as well, because when you stimulate your muscle with weights, then you also increase your metabolism. The faster your metabolism is, the more calories you burn. If you combine both the correct nutrition with bot cardio and strength training, then you will certainly lose belly fat very quickly.
  • Everything comes down to taking action and letting go of the beliefs and dogmas. There is no point in following a heard of people, who will never make it anywhere. It is very easy to lose belly fat for women, once they understand the necessary steps and if they take action.

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