Weight Train for Weight Loss

Including weight training in your exercise/weight loss plan will make the overall difference in the outcome of your new healthy lifestyle/diet change.  Not only will you build more calorie burning muscle to aid with speedier fat burning, but your body strength and shape will transform. And muscle acts as an active furnace which increases your metabolism and burns fat all day, even while you sleep!

• The library has an assortment of books to get you started at home lifting weights and/or exercising.
• You don't need alot of hand weights. Plastic milk jugs filled with water at varied levels can work fine.
• Use your own body weight with calisthenic type floor exercises (push ups, sit ups, etc). You will not only be strengthening your muscles but burning calories too.
• Weight bearing exercise also increases bone density to avoid osteoporosis.  Burn fat & build bone density at the same time!
• There are very few legitimate excuses as to why you cannot do an exercise program at home.
• Exercise videos and DVDs can transform your living room into your gym!
• The chances of you building the huge muscles you see in the magazines is slim unless this is what you intentionally train for.  Women cannot genetically build the huge muscles that men do.  The testosterone is just not there.
• Weight training strengthens muscles to not only be stronger but lessen possible injuries.
• Weight training increases your self-esteem and self-confidence as well as improve your balance and coordination.
• This type of exercise improves overall health by enhancing your immune system, decreases blood pressure and risk of many diseases such as diabetes.

So, if you are not doing the above already, get started today! Go to your local library or book store to get your guide! Take your health into your own hands. When you feel sore from your first workout, remember that it only lasts until your body gets accustomed to the changes and that the soreness is your muscles saying “Thank You!”