Shift Your Weight Loss Into Overdrive!

Working out with weights will put your weight-loss goals into overdrive, and you don’t have to become a sweaty gym rat or body builder...But you do have to increase your lean muscle by strength training with an experienced Ultra Fit personal trainer.

If you want to get good results from your weight-loss regimen, then start pumping iron, and cut back on the cardio, fitness experts say.

Unfortunately, losing any significant amount of weight is hard if you don’t exercise - and the key is doing the right exercises to get the best results.

The importance of weight training in this process is often misunderstood.

According to the Mayo Clinic, weight training can help not only tone muscles, but improve your appearance and fight muscle loss that naturally comes with age. And it doesn’t take as long as you think. Your body will adapt to weight training and begin adding new muscle or rebuilding muscle that has been lost due to inactivity and aging within a few weeks!

More than just cardio

Everyone who wants to lose weight seemingly starts out in the wrong direction, doing cardio exercises, such as walking or running on a treadmill, riding a bike, things like that, all of which are fantastic but will not contribute to maximizing your fat loss results. However, by increasing lean muscle through weight training and proper nutrition, you will keep burning fat and calories, even after you stop your exercise routine for the day.

One pound of muscle mass added to your body can burn up to 50 extra calories each and every day. This keeps on working even when you are sitting at your desk.

Picture the possibilities if you took off five pounds of fat and replaced this with pure muscle.

When you are on carb or calorie restricted diet and eating 3 meals or less, you will lose muscle mass and fat, which causes your metabolism to slow. Then, the pounds likely don’t come off as quickly as you would like and you plateau. The key is to train with weights and eat more quality food with more quality meals each day.

No Need to Worry about Becoming Too Muscular

By hitting the weights and building lean muscle, you’ll burn the calories faster. And you can quit worrying about becoming a huge muscular specimen, such as those competitive weightlifters you see on TV...that comes from years of training and tremendous amounts of food.

Fitness experts assure that women won’t become muscle-bound because most of their bodies don't produce nearly enough testosterone to become bulky like body builders, says Phil Tyne, director of the Baylor Tom Landry Health and Wellness Center in Dallas.

'An ideal'

In fact, more women, even those over 65, are lifting weights than ever before as the desire for more attractive and healthy bodies and the worries about bone loss grow in their minds. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta says one out of every five women is pumping iron at least twice a week, a modest increase over the past 10 years.
Researchers want to see that number climb much higher by 2010.

"Women see this as an ideal they'd like to achieve, and it makes weight-training more approachable to women," says Teresa Moore, an exercise science expert.

Lifting weights will burn away the fat during your workout and will continue to do so after you have stopped exercising for the day. As you build up your endurance and can lift heavier weights with more intensity, you will burn more calories. The stronger you become the quicker those fat reserves will go away.

However, start slowly and utilize the services of an Ultra Fit personal trainer with years of experience and knowledge. Allow your Ultra Fit trainer to teach you and guide you so that you achieve the best results with minimal risk of injury.

Be careful to exercise properly and not jerk the weights or move too fast when lifting the weights. Also, lifting too much weight too fast can do more harm then good.

An Ultra Fit Personal Trainer will insure your Success!