Build Muscle – Lose Weight
If you want to lose weight and burn fat, you need to build muscle. Developing new muscle is the quickest, and most lasting, way to weight loss success. Why?
Muscle tissue is metabolically active – it burns a lot of calories. People who have a lot of muscle have a higher metabolic rate. This means that they can burn more calories … and more fat … even when they are NOT exercising.
Unfortunately, most dieters who don’t use this muscle-building secret will lose muscle as they lose weight. They may also lose strength and balance. And their metabolic rate will go down, down, down. They may find it impossible to maintain their weight loss.
You can thwart the metabolic slow-down that often follows weight loss by building more fat-burning muscle.
When you develop muscle while trimming the fat, you look lean, firm, slender. When you lose muscle along with the fat, you may look like a bowl of jelly.
If you want to accelerate weight loss and fat burning, then you must tap into the secret of muscle-building exercise.
How do you build muscle?
Strength training is the best exercise for building muscle. You also need to support muscle with adequate protein in the diet.
Regular strength training can take the form of exercising with:
- Free weights
- Weight machines
- Cables
- Elastic bands
- Water exercises
- Body weight exercises and calisthenics
- Yoga
- Pilates
- Isometric exercises
Strength training can easily be done at home or in a gym.
For best weight loss results, concentrate on building the big muscles of the body. Body sculpting is extra but will not give you the metabolic boost that you get from strengthening your big muscles.
Concentrate on your thighs, your butt, your back and core muscles, shoulders and upper arms. You will look leaner, have better posture, and feel more powerful.
If you have not been participating in strength training before now, you will be pleasantly surprised by your results.
