1. Week 8: Why Resistance Training for Weight Loss

2. Resistance Training
An important tool we have to increase caloric expenditure is resistance training. By utilizing resistance training we force the body to both burn calories during the exercise, but also for the next 24 hours to repair the muscle tissue that we targeted.

3. Keep it Simple
For the purpose of this class we want to identify 5 lifts that target areas we would like to shape up.
You can either break the lifts up by location (ex. Upper body & lower body) or do them all together.
Perform 15 repetitions of each lift twice (if you can perform more than 15 reps than you need to increase the weight by 5 lbs)
Allow each muscle 48 hrs of recovery.
If you do not feel comfortable lifting weights…see the message board for meeting times and we will do some group session in the MAC weight room to learn both exercises and resistance training techniques.

4. Lesson
Send your resistance training program to me via with your excel graphs.