Fitness FAQs
Return to previous pageQ: How can lifting weights help me burn more fat than doing just cardio?
A: Lifting weights builds stimulates muscle fiber. Muscles are “metabolically active,” which means your body must burn calories to feed the new living tissue you’ve stimulated. For each pound of muscle you gain, your body will burn approximately 50 calories per day. So, if you add 5 pounds of lean muscle to your body this year (which, incidentally, will make you smaller, not bigger) you’ll burn an additional 250 calories every single day. That’s 91,250 extra calories burned per year, just by adding weight exercise to your routine. Imagine how much extra cardio you’d have to do to burn 91,250 calories!
The most efficient way to change the shape of your body is a program that combines both weights and cardio (which benefits your heart, lungs and circulatory system). Anything less and you’ll be cheating yourself in your mission to build a leaner, more toned body.
