Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Weights build muscle and metabolism

Weight training is really important in repairing a suppressed metabolism. Lifting weights is the stimulus to keep the muscle you have. Progressively overloading your muscles is the stimulus to begin rebuilding new muscle tissue, and muscle tissue is the heart of your metabolic furnace.

Men generally have no problem with weight training, but many women say they don't want to lift weights as part of their fat loss programs. The fact is, if you don’t lift weights you can expect a very, very long metabolism building journey.

Once you start exercising, especially if you do both high intensity cardio and weights, you’ll get an almost immediate boost in metabolic rate but the results are not going to be overnight.

So in addition to exercising your muscle you must also exercise your patience.

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