Weight Training for Weight Loss

Many people only associate weight training with building muscle and increasing strength. But what about weight training for weight loss?
Weight training is actually a very effective way to lose weight. The reason why is because lifting weights builds lean muscle mass. As you increase your lean muscle mass you also increase your metabolism, and the higher your metabolism is the more calories your body burns and the more body fat you'll lose, even when you're resting and sleeping. Over the course of several weeks or months, the number of calories burned and the amount of body fat lost as a result of a higher metabolism can be substantial.
Most weight loss programs don't include weight lifting and consist only of diet and aerobic exercise. The problem with this type of weight loss program is that it will cause you to lose lean muscle mass in addition to losing body fat. This loss of lean muscle mass will cause your metabolism to decrease, so you'll burn less  calories and lose less body fat. You won't lose lean muscle mass if weight lifting is a part of your weight loss program, so your metabolism will stay high and you'll burn more calories and lose more body fat. You'll also be able to eat more, while still losing body fat, if weight lifting is a part of your weight loss program.
There's another problem with relying only on diet and aerobic exercise to lose weight. Diet and aerobic exercise will give you a leaner body, but it will be a somewhat soft, flabby body because of the loss of lean muscle mass. If you add weight lifting to your weight loss program, you'll not only end up with a leaner body, you'll end up with a tighter, more toned body.
The bottom line is that when it comes to losing weight, weight training, aerobic exercise and diet are all equally important. Each one enhances and complements the others, resulting in maximum fat loss at the maximum possible rate in a healthy and safe way.
Some people reading this may worry that even though lifting weights will help them lose body fat, it might also give them big, bulky muscles and make them look like a bodybuilder. The truth is that unless you have the right body type and the right genetics, which not many people do, it takes a very long time and a lot of hard work to build big, bulky muscles. It's almost impossible for women to build big, bulky muscles because they don't have enough of the hormone testosterone, which is a key hormone for building muscle.
Both men and women bodybuilders not only have the right body type and the right genetics, but many of them also take steroids and other anabolic drugs to help them build their abnormally large muscles. So there's no need to worry that you're going to end up looking like a bodybuilder if weight lifting is a part of your weight loss program. Even if you ever did reach the point where you felt that you were getting too muscular, you could just switch over to a maintenance type of weight lifting routine.
Now that you know just how effective weight training for weight loss is, make sure that lifting weights is a part of your weight loss program. No weight loss program is complete without it.