Weight training helps to lose weight for females.Is it true?

Answer 1

Yes, it is true. Here are some ideas form my 360 Blog September 10:

Don't target more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful.

There is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below.

The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode.

Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.

To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. I like the list of calories for various exercises at this website (http://www.nutristrategy.com/ activitylist3.htm). You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.

For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet.

Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.

There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you exercise them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.

If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.


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Answer 3

It does help, but any type of exercise will help people lose weight. Weight training burns fat and muscle but it also build muscle so if you have done a lot of weight training then you may gain weight, as muscle weighs more then fat. To get good weight loss, do cardio and weight training and eat healthy.

Answer 4

any exercise that keeps you moving and active helps to lose weight, as long as youre eating less calories than you expend. Weight lifting does create a lot of muscle which helps you to burn fat faster. Don't lift heavy weights that may only build bulk depending on your body type (ie stocky and muscular) but lift lighter weights and do many reps. Its' best to do them until you feel a burn in that muscle and then especially if you want to lose weight don't take breaks in between the reps, but move on immediatly to a new muscle group. Good luck

Answer 5

There is a slight misconception about weight lifting. You will actually gain weight because muscle weighs more than fat does. That being said, it sounds to me what you want to lose is fat and the answer is yes. It will help you lose fat and help tone your body. But don't expect overnight changes and don't start out with too much weight..

Answer 6

Use light weight to lose weight; in a fast tempo. Use of heavy weights are for pumping up muscles and should be done slowly. But rigorous exercise of running and jogging and walking or aerobics will bring results faster.

Answer 7

Yes and no. It will start you burning calories by increasing your exercise regime, but as you replace fat with muscle you may actually gain some weight since muscle is about 3 time denser then fat. AS you increase your muscle mass, you will burn fat more efficiently. You will definitely lose inches. Go for a good cardio workout and do more reps with lighter weights.

Answer 8

Yes weight training does help females lose weight.

Answer 9

Weight training helps you loose weight more than cardio, but you gain muscle - so the scale lies to you and makes you think it isn't working.

Answer 10

it works for people.
female male whatever, it works for all.
you lift weights you burn calories.
you gain mussel and burn fat,
the more mussel the more fat you burn.

get a good balance of food intake and how much exercise you do.
and don't just go all out. your body needs time to adjust to the higher levels of exertion. tone your body first then do more if you want