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Weight Training For Weight LossFollow Coach Carvey's weight training for weight loss program. Mrs. Coach Carvey shows you how strength training and weight loss are the perfect partners. 
If you are interested in losing weight and keeping it off you should be weight training for weight loss.
Why? Because resistance training creates muscle, and muscle is active tissue that uses calories. Resistance training for weight loss is a win win situation.
Slideshow: Here are a few examples of the effects of weight training on some of Mrs. Coach Carvey's clients.
Sure you can lose weight temporarily by dieting alone, but the problem with that is you will actually lose muscle tissue in the process. Muscle is your metabolism. Lean muscle can be compared to an engine that needs refueling, and guess what that means?
This is why bodybuilders eat a high calorie diet. The Effects of Weight Training
These are but a few of the effects of weight training. The photos below of one of my clients says it all. She lifted very heavy weight, did her cardiovascular exercise regularly and ate hight quality low fat food to get results!
Weight Loss Strength Training Program
A fat loss weight training workout should consist of lifting or resisting fairly heavy weights.
The idea here is keep the workout short and sweet and lift as heavy as possible with good form. This will help you to gain more lean muscle than you could possibly gain working with light weights and higher reps.
Please do not worry about getting huge bulky muscles. Bodybuilders are genetically predispositioned for the sport and they go to extreme measures to achieve the ripped muscle look that you see on stage. Even they do not walk around looking like that 365 days a year.
Keep doing your cardiovascular work as this will continue to help you to lose weight. If you are not yet doing a regular cardiovascular workout than go to my cardiovascular fitness page.
A balanced workout will have both aerobic exercise and strength training exercises. Naturally you would have to build up your strength slowly to get to the point where you can lift heavier weights so as to gain as much quality fat burning muscle as possible.
Find weights that you can lift with good form but are challenging. First set will be a warm up. Do 12- 15 reps with a lightish weight. Second set will be your first working set. Do 9 reps at the most. You should be challenging yourself here a little and it should be difficult for the last 2-3 reps. Third set will be the most challenging because you will try to go to failure by the last rep. You should find a weight where 6 reps is difficult.
Do chest, back, shoulders and abs two days a week. Choose three exercises for each muscle group.
Do legs, biceps and abs two days a week. Choose three exercises for each muscle group. Take a days rest though between muscle groups. In other words do not do legs two days in a row. Your muscle grows when you are resting. *Sidebar - Get your mind into the muscle as you work it. Get yourself a good anatomy book and study the muscles a little bit. It helps to visualize the muscle that you are working on.
That's it!
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This workout is meant for someone who knows how to lift already. If you are new to this than go to my beginner weight lifting page.
