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If you are one of many who believe that sitting on your favorite abdominal, thigh or any other machine and lifting light weights for high reps (15 or more per set) is going to strip the fat off your body and tone you up, you are going to be disappointed.

The Fitness Magazines Are Lying To You

The fitness magazines keep telling you to perform these types of workouts where you do the typical 3 sets of 12-15 reps or so. The problem is that these body-part specific workouts are based on age-old bodybuilding folklore of the past that will not work for those who need to burn stubborn body fat.

Take a look around your gym next time you are there and take notice of the regulars who you see all the time on the same machines that isolate quads, hamstrings, abs, biceps and the like.

I want you to look at these regulars and ask yourself how many of these individuals have significantly changed their bodies in the last 6 months…in the last 12 months.

You are going to make a big discovery here. The truth is that just about none of them will have made that significant change. Yet, there they are doing the same workouts day in and day out.

This article is going to address one of the many reasons why these individuals never succeed in achieving their fat loss goals.

Resistance Training With Light Weights For High Reps

Resistance Training or Strength Training can have a dramatic effect on your ability to burn body fat when performed correctly.

Unfortunately, when you simply lift these light loads for say, 3 sets of 15 reps (like the fitness magazines suggest so often) here is what happens:

1) Light loads and high reps do nothing to build lean muscle. This is important because muscle burns calories and fat. The more muscle you have the leaner you can become. So, how do you build that lean muscle? You lift heavier loads at higher intensities in multiple movement patterns. It’s not about looking like a bodybuilder because you don’t have to. Lifting weights at high intensity will not turn you into Mr or Ms Olympia if you employ the precise strategies as I lay out.

2) Using machines that isolate body parts will only keep you fat. This is because those body part specific machines do not jack up your metabolism to really burn calories. If your body is not challenged properly you will never burn a significant amount of fat off your body.

3) You will not look toned if you don’t develop tone. In other words, you can drop all the fat you want and never see that muscle tone if you do not develop enough muscularity in the first place. Fat lies over your muscles and blurs the visibility of the muscles. As you burn more and more fat, the muscles become more visible (the look described as toned). This is where so many people miss the point. They are afraid of “bulking up” which is unrealistic for most people.

I could go on and on but it would get beyond the purpose of this article. There are so many variables and secrets that almost nobody uses because they do not know about them all. One powerful training tool is to harness the power of circuit training for fat loss

Kevin Yates is a certified Personal Trainer and owner of Learn 2 Burn Fat.com. He is the author of “Secrets To Fast Fat Loss” the ultimate nutrition and exercise plan that shows you how to quickly and easily lose fat without restrictive dieting or hours of long, boring cardio. Download it FREE

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