What Are the Best Strength Exercises for Weight Loss?
Losing pesky pounds is half the battle; maintaining your goal weight is the other half. When kickstarting your fitness journey with weight loss in mind, it’s crucial to implement a healthy balance of cardio and strength training in your regimen. Strength training helps you sculpt lean muscle—and the greater amount of muscle you have, the more calories you’ll torch. Research shows that resistance training, paired with restricting calories, is an ideal approach to decrease your body fat percentage and whole-body fat mass. Resistance training all by itself, along with when it’s combined with aerobic exercise, is also incredibly effective. Science says so! That’s why we chatted with a fitness pro who breaks down 10 of the best strength exercises to lose weight and keep it off.
“Strength training both contributes to fat loss and builds lean muscle. As you build lean muscle through strength training, your metabolic rate increases, allowing you to burn more calories while at rest,” explains Ronny Garcia, CPT, Blink Fitness. “Strength training can increase your BMR (basal metabolic rate)—the number of calories your body needs at rest to maintain functions. A higher BMR can make it easier to maintain weight loss.”
Excerpted from Eat This, Not That!
