Weight training is not designed for weight loss. Weight training stimulates muscle gain.
Why would anyone do weight training when they want to lose weight?
Because weight training Stimulates muscle gain it is responsible for increasing your metabolic rate. Improving your blood sugar and promoting energy usage well after the training session is done.
By increasing muscle mass you increase your fat burning engine. Which means that at rest you burn more fat.
Because weight training is anaerobic in nature you tend to use carbohydrates while training and then burn more calories after to recover from the workout.
This could equal fat loss when your diet is appropriate.
Aerobic exercise like walking uses excess energy mainly during the workout. On the other hand weight training uses energy during exercise and for many hours after exercise.
This is dependant on your intensity and also whether you used large compound exercises or Smaller isolation exercises.
Generally most people find that with weight training they don’t lose as much weight but they do lose fat.
Weight loss shouldn‘t be your goal. Fat loss should be your goal. Scale weight is important but clothes size is just as important.
Many times I have seen my clients drop clothes sizes especially through the mid section and yet have not lost a lot of weight.
This realisation that weight loss doesn’t always equal loss of fat but fat loss doesn’t always equal a large weight drop.
That is what weight training can do for you.
The question is this......
Do you want to look better, feel better and fit smaller clothes that you have never fit before?
Or just weigh less?
The beauty of weight training is that it can give you tremendous fat loss and make you look and feel better and that is always the best outcome.
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