When it comes to losing weight the majority of people will diet and start cardio training. While this will work in helping you lose fat, adding strength training to your exercise regime will speed up and increase your results!

So how does this happen? Muscle is like the engine in a car, even when it’s resting (idling), it continues to burn fuel or in the case of a person, fat. And just like a car engine, the more muscle you have the more fuel you will burn. Yes, cardio training will also burn fat, although it’s only while you’re training that this happens, once you stop exercising you’ll also stop burning fat. And let’s be honest you’re going to spend a lot more time at rest than you are doing cardio training over the course of a week, so building more muscle, or a bigger engine is in your best interests if you’re wanting to burn fat.

At this point it’s important to note that if you just do cardio exercise and reduce your caloric intake (diet) you are likely to lose muscle as well as fat. This means you’re actually going to negatively impact the amount of fat you will lose by dropping the amount of energy you will burn at rest. In other words you are slowing your metabolism.

In summary, by incorporating strength training into your exercise regime and building more muscle you will increase your metabolism. This means you will burn more fat at rest and speed up your weight loss.

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