Attempting to burn excess calories with exercise in neither desirable, nor particularly effective.  The main problem is that we don’t really burn very many calories when we exercise.  If we actually burned as many calories as many fitness trainers pretend we do during exercise, we probably wouldn’t have survived as a species for very long.  We would have died from exhaustion and malnutrition during our hunting and gathering stage as a species.

The truth is that the body is very efficient, and it will refuse to burn more calories than it needs to. To the body, calories are energy, and energy is life. If you burn a few hundred calories on the treadmill at the local gym for example, all it would take  would be a slice of cake to put you back on the scales.  Not a very productive use of time.

The real potential of a weight training program when it comes to fat loss is two fold:

1. increasing your metabolism and,
2. controlled weight loss

Increasing your metabolism through adding extra lean muscle to your body, will dramatically increase your metabolism.  This means that you will burn a lot more calories throughout the day, and while sleeping than you would do otherwise.

And controlled weight loss means that by using a program that will build muscle fast, you will ensure that the weight you lose is the result of fat loss, and not the loss of lean muscle tissue.  Lean muscle loss can be very significant with an individual who use a diet only approach to fat loss. They can end up losing muscle tissue, and as a result be left without muscular tone and with a lower metabolism.

When on an effective muscle gaining program and calorie reduced diet, your body needs to maintain and or, increase it’s lean muscle, so all of the weight loss occurs from a reduction in fatty tissue.  By combining weight training with a calorie reduced diet, you can literally produce huge muscle gains in record time, while shedding loads of unwanted fat. Now that’s magic.