Exercise Part 2 – Weight Training (For both Men and Women!)

The two main issues that rise here is women thinking either or both of the following –

1. Weight Training is just for guys

2. If you weight train I will bulk up

Both are completely wrong and every single girl my brother has spoken to in his Personal Training career has had the Ah Ha! Moment once he has explained it to them.

Men AND women weight training is a superb way to burn calories and burn stomach fat.

Long story short, lifting some weights tears the micro fibres that makes up muscles.

They need to repair, so where do you think muscles get that energy to do so? –Bodyfat!

Contrary to what many women think, when guys see women weight training in the gym, they have the utter most respect for them as they know themselves what the benefits that weight training brings. 

So if you lower your sugar, combine cardio and weights 2-3 times a week you will absolutely melt body fat and feel damn good to 

As you are using interval training and weight training, your body is burning calories all day, all week long. Love it!

When was the last time Weight Watchers or the awful weight loss tv programs told you to do that? Pretty much never.

If they do mention it then don’t tell you why, if they did as I mentioned then the diet industy wouldn’t make so much money out of people who don’t understand why.

They just talk about your BMI, Low fat diet, exercise 3-5 a week.. blah blah blah kitten bloody crap – Old News plus these diet experts usually usually look like they are gaunt and doesn’t eat or workout properly themselves.

So, You need to remember that our bodies are made up from bone and muscle so when we exercise via cardio we can actually loose some muscle.

This is why it is important to eat enough protein each day, to keep full but also to keep our muscle.

Protein shakes are a great way to keep your protein up, while your body burns the fat away at rest

How many times have you seen someone be on a diet and become gaunt looking? Think back and see if you can think of any.

They may look slim but their face, neck, arms and legs can become untoned which means they have not actually lose all their weight via fat loss, but muscle loss to.

Perform some weight training exercises and you can easily keep your muscle but also gain some to and have a very sexy toned look and be the envy of your friends.

Men would need to weight train for a long time before they looked like Arnie, with spot on diet like actual body builders do.

For us mere mortals both men and women can both do themselves wonders by integrating some weight training into their exercise routine.

Women who do this, feel their confidence grow pretty much overnight and in just a few weeks see a difference in their body shape but you will NOT bulk up like guys do.

So remember, women of any age do not have enough testosterone in their bodies to have biceps like men do and even then, men can take months to get there.

The benefit of weight training is that you burn calories as your muscles repair over the next 2-3 days.

Whereas old school slow cardio, you can stop burning additional calories within the hour or getting off that treadmill. 

 So to sum up -

• Reduce or cut out processed sugar and replace with something like Greek Yogurt and blueberries
• Make sure you are eating enough or your metabolism slows down -No skipping meals 
• Start weight training 2-3 times a week – with the interval training cardio after your weights session or if you are to tired, on days you do not weight train.

That’s all –

Weight / Fat loss doesn’t need to be complicated –

If you already eat ok, and go to the gym.. get that cardio changed and weight training in. Do it 

Lastly, be patient.  Take self photos every 2 weeks and over 12 weeks you will see an amazing difference 

If you don’t know me, just to prove all of this works, here is a photo of me now and what I looked like in from Feb 2012 after losing 4lb away off 3 stone. 

So get off that sofa and don’t look back