Tom Venuto Was Right: Strength training can turn you into a fat-burning machine

Just another article that confirms what Tom Venuto has been saying for years: you need to burn the fat and feed the muscle. You can't get fit by just losing weight and turning into a stick! Here's more from the Asheville Citizen-Times:

While you may lose weight initially, cardiovascular exercise and cutting calories will only take you so far, said Brian Lawler, director of sports performance enhancement at Acceleration Sports Institute in Arden.
"With aerobic exercise, you lose more calories during the time you are exercising, but that's it," he said. "With weight training, your metabolism stays elevated up to 48 hours. The real goal is to preserve lean muscle mass so you are a fat-burning machine."
Exercise experts agree that building muscle is a key part of losing weight and should be a part of any exercise routine.
While cardiovascular exercise helps to strengthen your heart and lungs, restricting the amount of calories that you are eating and doing only aerobic exercise make you lose lean muscle mass, which slows down your metabolism, Lawler said. Strength training helps to build lean muscle mass, which helps increase metabolism and burn more calories, he said.
Strength training also increases bone mass, which is important for both women and older adults, said Schon Rittenhouse, medical wellness coordinator at Pardee Hospital.

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