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Weight Lifting Workouts – Good for Losing Weight?
By Thaya Kareeson | February 21, 2010
Contrary to the common opinion and the impression that is given by many infomercials and ads about weight training workouts, they are not primarily designed to lose weight. Find out about the most common misconceptions in this article.
Weight lifting workout routines usually activate a few specific muscle group at a time. Because of that, the body’s heart rate and overall fat burning capacity remains low throughout the workout. More energy and fat can be burned off by activating more muscle groups in the same amount of time.
Because weight lifting workouts strengthen only specific muscle groups, it can actually make you gain more weight if it is not combined with enough fat burning exercises or with a proper nutritional plan.
Because of this, a balance “weight lifting workout” should consist of a cycle through different actual weight lifting exercises that are changed up with fat burning exercises like jogging or bicycle. It is also important to give the different muscle groups time to build and “digest” the strengthening exercises for certain time intervals before addressing them again with intensity.
It is also important to consider your overall workout goals and the time that you have available to put into the routines. Someone who wants to develop an overall fitness from scratch with a 3-day per week time availability will end up with a significantly different workout plan than a person who is in good shape and wants to build more strength in 5 workouts per week.
For most people, a simple recipe to help you lose weight and achieve a better overall fitness level is to maintain a routine with 2-parts fat burning exercises and 1-part muscle building exercises.
If you can only work out 3 days per week, you can perform two days of fat burning and one day of muscle building. If you can workout 5 days per week, you can do 3 days of fat burning and 2 days of muscle building. For best results, you can just try alternating fat burning and weight lifting days.
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