Many people's workouts consist only of a cardiovascular type with little if any resistance training or weight bearing training added to it. Some think that aerobic exercise alone is more than enough to facilitate the effective burning of fat from their body. And some think that adding weight training to their routine is only for adding bulk. In fact, adding more muscle strength and tone via some type of resistance training will actually help burn fact more effectively... even while you are at rest. According to recent studies, there is a growing trend in the number of people adding some sort of weight bearing activity to their workouts. In fact, the use of weights is becoming more and more popular and is up 76% over the past decade. Coupling weight training with a cardiovascular workout will result in a much more effective burning of fat from the body, and will result in the effect of your workout against body fat to continue beyond your workout time. By adding some type of weight lifting and muscle toning exercises to your workout you can dramatically increase your muscle metabolism and as such, enjoy the benefit of an extended fat burning session beyond your workout and beyond just that of your cardio aerobic activity. Adding weights or resistance to your exercises will cause your muscle to become not only stronger but leaner as well. Your actual muscle development will take place during the periods of recovery time. It's important to be mindful of this as you work your schedule. Allow for sufficient rest period between putting your muscles under a workout load. Whether your goal is to tone or build muscles, it is important to know what happens during the muscle training process. When lifting weights, muscle tissues are torn apart (at the microscopic level) from the stress, and it's in the recuperation period that your muscles become stronger and therefore able to support the extra stress. Usually the recuperation period required is 24 to 48 hours after the weight lifting activity. Due to muscle metabolism, energy is still being burnt during the recovery period. Combining your cardiovascular activities (high repetition)during the recovery period will tire the body in a different manner... in fact, in a complementary manner and will increase the total fat burning effect. As you can probably see, for optimal fat burning a workout or exercise routine that combines both resistance and weight training with a good cardio workout that ultimately raises your muscle metabolism will achieve the highest results. It is your muscle mass and your muscle metabolism that suffer during periods of starvation type of diets or those that attempt to strip the fat from your body quickly. With this type of approach, you'll lose your muscle mass and lower your muscle metabolism, thus actually working to counter act the starvation type of diet. This isn't effective for the long term nor is it healthy for you. If fact, as many people have unfortunately experienced, rapid weight loss is many times accompanied by just as rapid weight gain on the back side of any such diet. You should implement a plan of steady, gradual weight loss by combining the aforementioned cardiovascular and weight or resistance training; thus allowing your muscle metabolism to naturally increase and naturally burn fat. This approach may take a little longer, but you'll feel better, look better, and the weight loss will become permanent.
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