Pumping Yourself Thin

Weight training is even better for weight loss than most people realized.

A study at Boston University confirmed that resistance training is just as significant in helping overweight people lose fat as endurance or cardio training.

Your body is made up of two types of muscle fibre.
Cardio training increases the type of type I muscle fibres, while weight training increases type II fibres.
An increase in type II muscle mass can reduce body fat, help drop body weight and reduce the risk of adult diabetes.

This leads to another reason to train with weights, especially as you age. Beyond the age of 30, humans loose approximately 6 pounds of muscle mass per decade and most of that drop occurs with the type II muscle. With less muscle mass, it is harder to lose weight as you age so it becomes increasingly more important to re-build that muscle and the only way to do that is through weight training.