Why Weight Training

Why does Time for Change Fitness promote resistance training?

Many people focus on calories alone. The slash and dash mentality develops destructive patterns, like extreme calorie cuts and/or excessive aerobics. This sets off an alarm-state in the body where the body sheds muscle tissue to lessen energy demands, and stores body fat as a survival response. Once this physiological state is reached, it becomes nearly impossible to lose any more weight no matter how many calories you cut or how much aerobic work you add. What you end up with is a person who is on a starvation level calorie count and performing excessive exercise, yet is still flabby.

The calories burned during an exercise session are relatively small compared to the amount burned during the other 23 hours of the day. Most fat oxidation occurs between training sessions, not during. This means your exercise sessions should primarily be geared towards building muscle and boosting your metabolism.

After a strength training session, the metabolic rate raises (the after-burn effect) for longer periods of time than after aerobic work (up to 48 hours). This is because all of the steps involved in the recovery process from strength training (satellite cell activation, tissue repair, protein synthesis, etc.) require energy (calories).

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Are You Healthy?

Looking ok doesn't mean that you're really ok.

Researchers in Finland recently studied 16 sets of twins. In each set, one twin exercised regularly and the other didn't, but they both weighed and look virtually identical. The research concluded that looking the same doesn't equate to the same health level. The sedentary twins in the study averaged more than 150 percent more liver fat, 48 percent more abdominal fat, and almost 40 percent more total body fat. The lesson is that your health is about more than fitting into a pair of jeans. If you feel ok, and don't exercise; think of how great you can feel if you start a regular exercise routine. Talk to a fitness professional, ideally one who understands training, nutrition, and the correlation between the two.

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