Whether you want to gain bulk or lose inches, weight training is an efficient way to achieve both. However, be clear about one thing: weight training itself cannot make you big or small. Weight training and diet can make you big. Weight training and diet can make you slender. Losing or gaining weight has more to do with what you eat than what you lift.
If your goal is to lose weight don’t overlook the simplest, fastest, most straight-forward method: weight training. Even though the puffy fat (cellulite) is on the back of your leg, it’s time to face the fat. And whether medical doctors agree or disagree that cellulite exists, if you’ve got whatever it is, weight training is the fastest, surest way to get rid of it.
Losing Weight
If your goal is to lose weight, you should modify your diet. Minimize fat intake as you regulate your daily caloric count. Along with this, you can develop a weight program geared toward body sculpting rather than body building. Aerobics should play a part in this program. There is no need to worry about putting on mass if that is not your goal. It simply won’t happen. Gaining great bulk muscle comes from a specific diet and training program geared toward that end. Weights do not automatically give you bulk.
Gaining Weight
If your goal is to gain weight you will have to modify your diet just as the person who wished to lose weight will have to do. But the modification must be to increase calories with high quality food while engaging in a high intensity weight program - using higher poundages. Aerobics should be kept to a minimum - sufficient to maintain strong heart and aerobic capacity for training - but not enough to burn excess calories needed for building muscle mass.
The following are two popular myths:
I just can’t lose weight.
I just can’t gain weight.
Don’t fall for this nonsense. You just haven’t been doing it the right way.
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I totally agree with the above comments. For me it was really an issue of metabolism. Once I changed my eating habits and my exercise, I began to notice a huge difference. I wanted to lose weight, and what I lost was inches, which is what I really sought. I started lifting weights, so now I have hard, solid muscle but a tighter body.
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