What Resistance Training Can Do to Your Weight Loss Program
Most of available weight loss programs focus on a controlled diet, specific eating habits, and probably some aerobic or anaerobic exercise.
In principle, these weight loss programs are bound to work and be effective. Nonetheless, there is still one more area to explore which might give you more promising results than you’ve ever had.
Resistance training has been considered as the best long-term tool for losing fat and building muscle. It is any exercise that utilizes movements against a force. These include dumbbells, medicine balls, bands, weights, barbells, and even your own body weight. All of our personal training programs and boot camp classes at our studio in Eagan emphasize interval strength training.
Theoretically, the more lean muscle tissue your body have, the more the amount of calories you burn whether at rest or on the move. Consequently, the more muscle tissues you have, your body will require more energy to maintain that muscle. This energy that the body needs will come from burning and utilizing your calories. Hence, more burned calories means more weight loss.
Every time you engage in resistance training, your body will have increased its post workout caloric burn, and this will last for 24 to 48 hours. Imagine, your body is having an accelerated rate of burning calories even after working out and that means you are burning a lot. Compared to just a simple cardio training, there will still be an accelerated burn but his will only last for a couple of hours.
Doing resistance training also increases your muscle’s anaerobic energy, or the amount of energy that muscles have in them. If this is the case, the stronger you make your muscles, then the more you can work harder and the more calories you can burn.
Your mobility and strength will also be increased with resistance training, making you more active in your daily life. This allows you to burn more calories throughout the day.
Also, through proper weight training, you will learn how to properly activate your core muscles. Given this, you will be able to use more core muscles when doing your daily activities, thus, more muscle fibers are utilized to burn more calories. Many of our personal training clients have also been able to rehabilitate low back problems.
Clearly, resistance training really helps and boosts your weight loss program. For all the above reasons, it is highly recommended that people who want to lose weight must focus on resistance training.
You can find all of these in Eagan’s personal fitness studio, the Body Project Studio. It has all the equipment necessary to get you started on your resistance training, or whatever it is you have in mind. With the help of our personal fitness trainers here in the Body Project Studio, you will be able to get the proper training.
See what our clients had to say when they participated in Eagan’s quick weight loss programs. Give us a call today to get started on a program.
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