do u lose weight when u lift weights?

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Please see "Physical Activity Calorie Calculators" source link below.

The following healthy living recommendations will help you if you’re trying to lose weight, tone up your muscles, have aspirations of building lean muscle mass, are attempting to get a wash board stomach, or just want to feel better:

*1) Burn more calories then you're consuming everyday and measure your results using the following formula: Calories Consumed minus Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) minus Physical Activity minus the Thermic Effect of Food (TEF). A website that explains this formula in more detail and will help you determine how many calories you need to reach or maintain a certain weight is at http://www.primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/library/weight/calsburned.htm

Get a diet and fitness calculator that you can put on your computer or cell phone. This will allow you to easily calculate the above formula, set goals, log your daily calorie consumption, and register your physical activities.

Set realistic goals for your ideal body weight. Here are two websites that will calculate a suggested body weight:
Adults: http://www.halls.md/ideal-weight/body.htm
Teens/Children: http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/exercise/weight/bmi.html

It is difficult and unhealthy to lose more than one or two pounds per week. There are 3,500 calories in a pound. If you eat 500 fewer calories per day for a week you will lose one pound. If you burn through exercise 500 more calories per day for a week you will lose one pound.

*2) Eat natural and organic foods found on earth versus something created by a corporation to make money. Eat meals in small portions throughout the day and take a good multi-vitamin supplement.

Avoid “High Glycemic Load Carbs” (sugar, pastries, desserts, refined starches such as breads, pasta, refined grains like white rice; high starch vegetables such as potatoes) and drink lots of water. Read this article for more information on high GL Carbs:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/carbohydrates.html

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*3) Exercise on most days by doing cardiovascular training and/or resistance training activities.

Read a book or find a certified trainer to make sure your doing all resistance training exercises correctly. A great book to buy that teaches you the resistance training basics is “Weight Training for Dummies”. A superb magazine to buy with resistance training routines that will not get you bored is "Muscle and Fitness". Signup for the free newsletter. An excellent free online resource is at http://www.exrx.net/

A good book to buy that teaches you the cardiovascular training basics is “Fitness for Dummies”.

*4) Get plenty of sleep. Sleep experts say most adults need between seven and nine hours of sleep each night for optimum performance, health, and safety.

*5) Educate yourself continually on health issues and make a life long commitment to good health. A great free publication is “Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005”. A superb book to read is “You The Owner’s Manual”. An excellent periodic publication is the “Nutrition Action Health Letter”. A reputable test you can take to measure your biological age is at http://realage.com

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FACT: Muscle burns fat

no you gain weight, you lose fat in terms of inches on your waist. You build muscle which denser than fat.

ya but u gain muscle

yes it turns fat into muscle. even people who are trying to gain weight lift weights to build muscle.

it is possible.

at first, you may gain a little more, but rest assured its muscle building and until you burn off the fat/any excess water your body has retained (men or women), then you will feel like youre taking 10 steps back! please keep w/it and you WILL see GREAT results!

well now it all depends
if you replace muscle with fat no
muscle weighs more than fat
cardiovascular burns weight
weights just add muscle
keep a good balance

muscle weighs more then fat. SO you decide

Lifting weights can HELP you lose weight. As you build more muscle, you will burn more calories (and fat). Muscle mass takes more energy to support it.

Weightlifting is a GREAT supplement to any weight-loss agenda.

you can lose a bit, but a lot of it is converted to muscle so you aren't really losing weight or gaining. You are just making muscle, which in turn, helps to burn calories and help you lose weight.

Somewhat. Muscle is leaner than fat, which means it takes up less space. The other part to that is that muscle is heavier than fat. That's why they say don't pay too much attention to the scale cause it could lie.

The flip side is that lean muscle burns more calories and in return burns fat.

So you need to mix cardio in with that or your scale could say something different and bother your weight loss plans.

Lifting weights alone only reduces your level of carbohydrates. However, if after lifting weights you perform aerobic exercises, you lose much more fat than you would if you did the reverse (ie. aerobic exercises and then lifting weights)

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