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On the other hand, resistance training or weight lifting will completely allow you to reshape your body. Together with the hypocalorie diet, weight lifting allows you the better chance of losing strictly body fat, while helping to enhance the natural curves of your body. It tends to put the body in an anabolic state and encou rages muscle mass gain or muscle maintenance. You may not burn as many calories per minute in resistance training during the actual workout (it depends on how intense the lifting workout will be), the overall calorie burning bene its you receive from it outweigh that of cardio. This training recruit tons of muscles and cause you to burn signi icant calories during your workout either you incorporate it with weights or bodyweight movements such as freeletics. Imagine this: after you inish training, after you go back home and sit on your couch and listen to the playlist of all your favorite songs, watching a movie, playing video games or catching up a TV series, your body’s metabolism continues to operate at a heightened pace as you rebuild your muscles stronger than before. This can continue for upwards of 36 hours after you inish training. For my part, I have done both the resistance training and cardio aside from a proper diet and as far as the result is concerned, resistance or weight lifting training worked for me. The irst thing I tried was doing the necessary cardio activities but I noticed that my body was not that proportioned enough as compared now. I lost some fat, but at the same rate, my muscles were not overly toned, thus it did not give off the same type of appearance as the freeletics does which is what I have been doing lately. When you go for cardio, thing is, you tend to use mostly your lower body extremities that is why there are those that have leaner lower body extremities but at the same time, do not have a leaner upper extremity and this is not ideal at all. When I started lifting weights and doing body movement workout plan, I noticed I have a much better overall transformation. My metabolic rate increased and it somehow simulated a greater fat burning process and it gave more de inition when I lost body fats. I am loving resistance training and I am also considering to include cardio for quite some time for better results. Please bear in mind that your diet is responsible for 80-90% of your successes or failures which means even if you spend 10+ hours a week exercising, that still leaves 168 hours for you to mess things up when it comes to your food intake. Keep the ideal total number of calories under control, refrain from eating junk food, give up soda, cut down fast food menu and start eating REAL FOODS: veggies, fruits, and lean meats. Before I forgot, DO NOT STARVE yourself to death. Your body needs energy PHOTO BY C1Photography and the body derives energy from the food we eat. You just have to eat healthy food and those that are rich in iber. So, what are you waiting for? Go put some workout clothes on and start your lifting and/or cardio routine. The road to weight loss is just an endurance away. Feel best on things you do. Remember, sweat is just fat crying. Beast, I mean, Best Mode On. .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7