| Strength Training Can Be the Key to Maintaining Your Weight |
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| by Diet Detective Editorial Staff | |
| Friday, 30 June 2006 | |
The bigger your muscles, the more calories you burn just to stay alive. Here's why...You don't have to spend hours sweating on the treadmill every week to keep your weight in check. Experts say that regular weight training may burn more calories and fat than aerobic training. How? Strength training with weights increases your muscle mass, and the more muscle you have, the higher your basal metabolic rate, or BMR, will be. Your BMR is the rate at which your body burns calories when you're at rest. So the higher your BMR, the more calories you burn. Research has shown that just a single pound of muscle tissue needs 30 to 50 calories per day to function. So when you work out with weights, you're not just burning calories; you're turning your body into a more efficient calorie-burning machine. Bookmark:            Trackback(0)
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