Fit Tip: Lift Weights

Fit tit: Lift Weights

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Metabolism Counts

Lifting weights increases your body's metabolic rate and keeps it raised long after the activity is completed. Weight training increases muscle – the more muscle you have the higher your metabolism - the higher your metabolism the quicker you burn calories.

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Maintain Muscle Mass

If you maintain muscle mass while losing weight you'll look better and feel better.

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Muscle Looks Smaller Than Fat

It's the fat on your body that makes you look fat. Muscle tissue looks smaller in size than fat of an equivalent weight. The more muscle you have the higher your metabolism will be and the more fat you will burn.

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Starvation Diets Do Not Work

It can seem that a drastic reduction of calories is a viable method to shed pounds quickly but this is not a long term solution. The only long term solution to weight gain is to find ways to develop new habits. Take it slowly, change one thing about your eating and exercise at a time. Don't try to change all your habits at once. Habit change is the key.

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Understand The Importance Of Exercise

Exercise is very, very important to your health, weight loss and general well being. Think long and hard about the benefits of exercise in your own life....The stronger your "Why?" the greater your "How?".

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Drink Green Tea

A study performed at the Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh UK, looked at the effects of short-term green tea consumption on a group of students between the ages of 19–37. Participants were asked not to alter their diet and to drink 4 cups of green tea per day for 14 days. The results showed that short-term consumption of commercial green tea reduces Blood Pressure, cholesterol, body fat and body weight. -Wikipedia

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