simple truth about resistance training

If you said that exercise doesn’t help you to lose weight quickly, you’d be greeted the same as Galileo when he made his proclamation that the Earth was not the center of the Solar System.

Yet, according to recent research, you’d be right. Just like Galileo. Most cutting-edge researchers on obesity now say that the effects of exercise on weight loss have been grossly overstated.

In fact, even a senior director of the World Health Organization recently stated that “If we put the emphasis on exercise we are unlikely to tackle the obesity problem as we are not driving at the root cause.”

Does this sound like heresy to you? It certainly does to me, as I’ve been taught my whole life, supposedly by people who “knew,” that exercise was by far the best way to lose weight quickly.

Apparently, the idea that exercise is a fast way to lose weight is a fairly recent one. It began to gain in popularity in the 1980’s, with the running craze and aerobic videos leading the charge.

Now, before you put away your treadmill and quit your aerobics class, keep in mind that science has proven that exercise, while not essential in an effective weight loss program, does provide many essential benefits. It treats depression, heart disease, and even some cancers.

It’s because of these huge benefits that doctors have been reluctant to admit the truth about exercise. Alone, it is simply not an effective way to lose weight quickly.

However, even if exercise is not the best technique for losing weight fast, it can be a very potent way of managing excess body fat.

For instance, significant muscle can only be built with resistance training. If your muscle to fat ratio is high, that means your metabolism is high, and you burn fat even when you ‘re sleeping.

So even if you don’t include exercise as part of your weight loss system, there are many other reasons besides weight loss to exercise.

Losing weight fast is not easy, but keeping it off is where the real challenge lies. Most weight loss systems won’t tell you this simple truth, but it’s essential in the overall long term success of any diet.