can u lose weight strength training

melindasuefritz

i thought strength training didnt help u lose weight now i t does??????

Justjamie0418

YES.

baptiste565

yes, if the lifting puts u in a calorie deficit.

curds

The short answer to this is yes, I'm sure others will give you a long winded and detailed explanation as to why.

If your nutrition is on track and you working out be it intense cardio or heavy lifting or just walking, if you moving and eating right you will lose weight.

craigmandu

A calorie deficit decides weight loss.

Strength training does not "make" you lose weight. Cardio training does not "make" you lose weight (unless it results in a calorie-deficit).

Strength training will ensure that your body does not consume as much muscle as it normally would under normal conditions. Therefore, more fat will be used to fuel your body and not as much muscle. This results in more "size" losses. (Toning so to speak)

iulia_maddie

You've been posting about how lifting doesn't help you lose weight everywhere.

What makes you lose weight is maintaining a caloric deficit. You can do that by eating less (obviously) and/or exercising. You CAN lose weight without cardio.
Strength training is recommended while losing weight because it helps preserve muscle mass.

Justjamie0418

Also, More efficent muscle = more calories burned, even when your doing nothing = more FAT loss, even is the scale is slow.

Crankstr

:noway:

Justjamie0418

waldo56

It is a way to burn calories.

All means of burning calories help you lose fat.

BinaryPulsar

You should strength train for a great looking, healthy body, and a good metabolism. And it's exercise and burns calories.

nz_deevaa

I've seen you post on dozens and dozens of threads saying that strength training doesn't help you lose weight. What lead you to believe that in the first place?

Strength training helps you preserve lean body mass, and just like BinaryPulsar said ...

You should strength train for a great looking, healthy body, and a good metabolism. And it's exercise and burns calories.

whierd

Funny story. True story. When you physically exert yourself, you burn more calories than when you do not.

Sort of like when you step a car's accelerator it burns more fuel to faster. Still following?

Now you may believe that lifting weights will make you gain muscle. Understandable. But what you are missing is that in order to build muscle, your body needs the right building blocks. Proteins, amino acids, etc. These are supplied through eating (putting food in your mouth hole). If you are eating a caloric deficit, your body doesn't have enough building blocks to build muscle, because those resources are being diverted to your bodies critical systems before anything else. Muscle building is low priority. However, lifting weights does prioritize muscle above fat, so your body will utilize more of its fat stores to make up for the energy deficit caused by the caloric deficit.

Knowledge is power. Stop being weak.

Mr_Bad_Example

i thought strength training didnt help u lose weight now i t does??????

Well, for today it does, but tomorrow strength training might change its mind. It's very fickle about when and who it helps to lose weight.

Otterluv

Funny story. True story. When you physically exert yourself, you burn more calories than when you do not.

Sort of like when you step a car's accelerator it burns more fuel to faster. Still following?

Now you may believe that lifting weights will make you gain muscle. Understandable. But what you are missing is that in order to build muscle, your body needs the right building blocks. Proteins, amino acids, etc. These are supplied through eating (putting food in your mouth hole). If you are eating a caloric deficit, your body doesn't have enough building blocks to build muscle, because those resources are being diverted to your bodies critical systems before anything else. Muscle building is low priority. However, lifting weights does prioritize muscle above fat, so your body will utilize more of its fat stores to make up for the energy deficit caused by the caloric deficit.

Knowledge is power. Stop being weak.

QFT and feistiness

JJordon

i thought strength training didnt help u lose weight now i t does??????

Well, for today it does, but tomorrow strength training might change its mind. It's very fickle about when and who it helps to lose weight.

This answer is...

ldressle66

All I know is that I sweat more doing strength training than anything else ... elliptical, water aerobics, ski machine, treadmill...

so...it must be burning something...

:0)

ZoeLifts

Funny story. True story. When you physically exert yourself, you burn more calories than when you do not.

Sort of like when you step a car's accelerator it burns more fuel to faster. Still following?

Now you may believe that lifting weights will make you gain muscle. Understandable. But what you are missing is that in order to build muscle, your body needs the right building blocks. Proteins, amino acids, etc. These are supplied through eating (putting food in your mouth hole). If you are eating a caloric deficit, your body doesn't have enough building blocks to build muscle, because those resources are being diverted to your bodies critical systems before anything else. Muscle building is low priority. However, lifting weights does prioritize muscle above fat, so your body will utilize more of its fat stores to make up for the energy deficit caused by the caloric deficit.

Knowledge is power. Stop being weak.

QFT and feistiness

Q again FT, plus, I thought this read fetishness at first...ooops.

JenMc14

i thought strength training didnt help u lose weight now i t does??????

Well, for today it does, but tomorrow strength training might change its mind. It's very fickle about when and who it helps to lose weight.

And you really need a good unicorn, purple ones are best. And lots and lots of glitter....

It's been repeated ad nauseam, but what's one more time? A caloric deficit causes weight loss. You can do this through diet alone. Exercise can help speed along the process because movement requires fuel which in turn burns calories. You may not see as dramatic of a loss with weight training, but that's because your body is retaining more muscle mass than if you only did cardio or did nothing.

K_Serz

Sort of like when you step a car's accelerator it burns more fuel to faster. Still following?

But what about fuel economy? If you press the gas running in place you dont go anywhere, you just waste fuel.


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Itsnic

~sigh~ i love glitter

thecakelocker

Every time I so much as pick up my car keys I gain a pound

ILiftHeavyAcrylics

You should strength train for a great looking, healthy body, and a good metabolism. And it's exercise and burns calories.

This.

Strength training will not make you lose weight if you eat too much, but it does burn some calories. More importantly, when you combine strength training with calorie deficit you help ensure that you're losing almost entirely fat instead of losing both fat and muscle.

Mother_Superior

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ETA: I misread the post I replied to. More coffee, less thinking. That's what I need.

acidosaur

Every time I so much as pick up my car keys I gain a pound

LMAO

dsjohndrow

It burns calories and fat. It also increases muscle mass. Depending on how you strength train and eat, it can be significant. Muscle burns fat at rest, fat of course does not. The same is true for some cardio. It will add some muscle mass. It is best for fitness to get a mix of cardio and strength training. Thus increasing the fat burn and adding fat burning muscle mass.

ArroganceInStep

No, because noone ever lost weight strength training. I mean, look at competitive bodybuilders. Single digit body fat percentages, does it look like they spend time in the gym? Of course not.



Same goes for ladies, they NEVER lift weights

BikerGirlElaine

It's working great for me so far!!

skinnyinnotime

:laugh:

calmthundr2

Just curious, since the topic came up...

Is there a way to automatically account for the calories burned through MFP or any related app as there is for cardio? In other words, if this week you lifted heavy weights for 3-4 days a week but next week you didn't do it for whatever reason, would you be able to use MFP or another tool (or even a simple rule) to understand how you would adjust your eating to maintain a calorie deficit?

craigmandu

Just curious, since the topic came up...

Is there a way to automatically account for the calories burned through MFP or any related app as there is for cardio? In other words, if this week you lifted heavy weights for 3-4 days a week but next week you didn't do it for whatever reason, would you be able to use MFP or another tool (or even a simple rule) to understand how you would adjust your eating to maintain a calorie deficit?

It's pretty difficult to estimate caloric burn from Weight training in general, as the intensity is very hard to "measure" There are some sites out there that "estimate" it, but honestly, most people have varying intensity levels as they weight train.