Top 18 Benefits of Weight Training

Weight training tones your muscles which looks great and raises your basal metabolism... which causes you to burn more calories 24 hours-a-day. You'll even burn more calories while you're sleeping.

Weight training can *reverse* the natural decline in your metabolism which begins around age 30.

Weight training energizes you..

Weight training has a positive affect on almost all of your 650+ muscles.

Weight training strengthens your bones reducing your risk of developing osteoporosis.

Weight training improves your muscular endurance.

Weight training will NOT develop big muscles on women....just toned muscles!

Weight training makes you strong. Strength gives you confidence and makes daily activities easier.

Weight training makes you less prone to low-back injuries.

Weight training decreases your resting blood pressure.

Weight training decreases your risk of developing adult onset diabetes.

Weight training decreases your gastrointestinal transit time, reducing your risk for developing colon cancer.

Weight training increases your blood level of HDL cholesterol (the good type).

Weight training improves your posture.

Weight training improves the functioning of your immune system.

Weight training lowers your resting heart rate, a sign of a more efficient heart.

Weight training improves your balance and coordination.

Weight training elevates your mood.

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100 Painless Ways to Cut 100 or More Calories

"Losing weight can be as simple as cutting out a meatball here and an egg roll there." ~~Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D.


REACHING YOUR FAT-LOSS GOALS may be easier than you think. To lose a pound of fat a month, all you need to do is cut 100 calories a day from your diet, assuming the intake and expenditure of all other calories remains the same. That's because a pound of body fat is equivalent to about 3,500 calories. So if you cut 100 calories a day for 31 days, you're cutting 3,100 calories--or about a pound.

Wait...a pound a month? Isn't that a little slow? Well, mounds of research indicate that you're more likely to keep weight off if you lose it slowly. Besides, losing a pound a month doesn't require drastic changes in your eating habits. It can be as simple as eating two egg rolls with your Chinese stir-fry instead of three. Here are 100 painless ways to cut 100 or more calories a day. As a bonus, they all reduce fat or sugar, which means, calorie for calorie, you're getting more vitamins and minerals.