Well, word is that specialists defend that weight training combined with a healthy diet, allows you to burn fat up to 72h after the workout. But this isn’t for everyone.

Nick Tumminello, personal trainer and author of Strength Training for Fat Loss, declares to Reuters that weight training should be the primary form of exercise for all, except beginners.  If you’re looking to lose fat, go with strength training,”, says Tumminello. “Watch your diet to reveal your shape, and strength train to improve that shape.”, he continues.

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The trainer, currently working in Florida, USA, states that “The body-building model is great for maximizing body building, but for the average individual looking for fat loss, or to feel better, or to improve general fitness, this creates more of a metabolic disturbance,”.

Yeah, bodybuilding is F***ing hard. It’s really too intense for most people. So, Tumminello recommends that you start doing it  once or twice a week, and gradually increment the frequency of training. No, you can’t do this all at the same time and start out in a rush. You’ll be too fatigued to provide any decent amount of output in your training, so it will be pointless. The body needs to rest, so start off slow and build up.

Jenn Burke, a personal trainer and manager of a gym chain in San Francisco, tells Reuters that stable cardiovascular exercise, like running or cycling, should be used to urn calories and improve pulmonary and cardiac capacity. The main difference between this and weight training is that cardio mainly burns calories while exercising, not having much impact on the rest of your day. Weight training causes a significant rise in metabolism, hereby allowing you to burn fat up to 72 hours posterior to the workout.

To all you Ego Lifters, Burke states that it is not necessarily about the amount of weight you can lift, but about making the body more efficient, toned, lean and strong.

Jacque Ratliff is an exercise physiologist with the American Council on Exercise. She adds a few benefits to weight training, like mineral density of the bones and the strengthening of tendons, ligaments and overall tissue. “If someone falls, the more strength in their muscles, bones, tendons, ligaments, the less likely they are to be injured,” Ratliff said.

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To add to the already vast benefits of this type of exercise is muscle elasticity. The greater the muscle mass, the higher your metabolism will be while resting.

Just like Tumminello, Ratliff argues that this type of exercise might be too extreme for people new to exercise. These beginners should be monitored and carefully advised. Again like Tumminello, states that practice should be kept at a maximum of twice per week in an early stage.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-fitness-strengthtraining-idUSBREA3K09N20140421