Weight training is for weight lose. Is it true? I do not think so. Let me tell you why that’s because …
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Whether we have longevity and active senior life depends on how we live through our middle-age hood. Im sharing hints and tips for the better middle-age life.

At gym I often see overweight guys are working on the bench press or squat rack. Many people actually believe they can lose their body weight if they do some strength training.
Fitness trainers reinforce this idea. You wanna lose weight, then work out mate. Then, I’d say they are up to some funny business to be brutally honest.

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3.2 … Weight loss and bulk up are totally different stages. The weight loss stage is like you do it up to your house by yourself. It’s like the minor renovation, painting inner and outer walls for instance. The other end is totally different. The bulk up stage is like the major renovation. Knocking off some walls, extending a new room, adding upstairs for example.

Weight loss is just to reduce your excess body fat. What you can do for that is to change your eating habits. Not exercises. I mean, exercises have some impacts, but as far as one can see, we are 90% what we eat. Exercises count only 10%.
So most importantly, you want to departure from your carb based diets. In other words, you want to hop on keto diets and restrict your carbohydrates intake.

Keto diets alone make a drastic difference in your weight and body fat ratio. You get certainly leaned up. You may achieve your weight loss goal in 2 to 4 months if you properly practice keto diets. If this is what you want, you only need dieting.

6 …The bulk up stage is to build muscles and get buffed up. To do so, you must be on high protein and high carb diets. Protein is for muscle growth and carbs supply the intensive power for heavy lifting. You also need to eat hell a lot because muscle growth requires over-calories.

Many guys on this stage take a range of supplements too, protein powder, creatine, testo booster, L-glutamine, etc. And off course, persistent and regular weight training must be carried out. All of these have to be done for a few years, and then you get bulked up finally.

These two stages should be seen totally separately. It’s just does not make sense you to jump onto the bulk up stage if you are overweight and just want to lose weight. It is not for you. Your stage is the weight loss stage, and you only want the right diet.
Introducing a new diet, the keto diet, alone could be stressful for you. Let’s just focus on your diet change for now because keto diets alone will fix your overweight issue in a few months.

I know, fitness trainers would boo to this. They say weight training burns body fat, hence it speeds up the body weight reduction. But, it is not so true to life. When you are weight lifting, your body is burning glucose, not fat. Fat burning is not happening during the workout to a great extent.

Fitness trainers also say, increased lean body mass, which is muscles, by weight training boosts your metabolism. As your metabolism gets faster and burns more calories, your weight loss shifts into high gear. Some elements of truth are in it.
But then, I want to ask these fitness trainers, do you know how many calories 1 kg of additionally gained muscle can burn.

Many fitness magazines say about 100 calories, but there seems to be no real studies backing it up. Probably the conservative estimate is around 50 calories a day. 1 kg of additional muscles burn just 50 calories a day.
For us men, our basic metabolism burns about 2000 calories a day. Compared to that, 50 calories are no big deal. Besides that, how long does it to take to gain 1 kg of muscle. A year maybe.

12.2 …So what I want to say is, focus on what you need to do on the weight loss stage. No weight training is required. Once you are lean, and you are interested in your body shaping, then by all means, move onto the next stage. It is challenging, long process, requires a lot of sacrifice. Yet, it is super rewarding.