“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself” (Leo Tolstoy)

Regardless of your exercise goal, weight (or resistance) training should be an important inclusion in your weekly exercise routine! My site and advanced exercise tips are focussed on weight loss, toning, and the ‘athletic’ figure! So you won’t find tips how to pack on excessive muscle as I don’t believe it’s healthy to spend hours in the gym pumping iron, plus I don’t believe it’s a healthy look!!…There are millions of other sites out there if you want the ‘puffed up’ look! I believe in a healthy balance and a more lean, toned, athletic figure you can maintain all year round!! This will never be a bodybuilding site, this is a Mortgage site primarily with exercise tips that both men and women of all ages and shapes can use to reduce body fat and enjoy a healthy, lean, toned and sexy body!! However, in saying that, weight training is very important for fat loss and a sexy looking body!!

she certainly takes her magic exercise pills!!

If there was a ‘magic pill’ you could take to give you your perfect figure…it would consist of high intensity cardio, a clean diet, and weight training!!

These three ingredients will give you the sexy body you want or help maintain the figure you have!! Diet will always be most important, however weight training is an essential part of your exercise routine because muscle requires more energy just to exist than what fat does!! So by doing weight training, you actually ask your body to provide and utilize more of your ’stored energy’ you have in your body! So everytime you weight train you are burning stored energy! Add high intensity cardio and a clean diet to this and you an awesome base for your body to make changes!…over time your body will rock!! As eventually your metabolism increases and your body fat reduces!!

Weight training is important for men and women, and all shapes and sizes!!

Doing resistance training won’t make you big so no need to worry about that!! If you are doing lots of cardio and eating well, weight training will help keep you streamlined. For the guys, I lift relatively heavy but do low reps to give a more natural look without getting bulky! For the ladies I would lift lighter weights and do a little more reps…resistance training is important for both men and women to reach your fitness goals!!

Weight training vs Cardio

I am a huge fan of High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) but I also mix in 2, 3, or 4 weight training sessions per week as I want to remain athletic with good muscle tone, but NOT bulky muscles!! I spend maybe around 30-45 mins doing weights per session and they are done at quite a high intensity as I like to get in, work hard, and get out of the gym as soon as possible!! And doing weights at a high intensity will also burn more calories! I have no desire to pack on excessive muscle but I also realize it’s important to weight train to maintain relatively low body fat, and I like having nicely defined muscle tone rather than big puffy muscles which I think is a rediculous look for guys!!

What are your weight training goals?

I’m all about balance in life, I like to be athletic but not bulky! And you see, I would much rather be lean & toned for 12 months of the year, than big and bulky which is hard to retain and in my view looks rediculous! You have to eat a lot of calories and a lot of the size you put on is actually fat!! And it’s funny as you get older because when I was in my early twenties, even though I was playing tennis overseas and needed to be athletic, I still wanted to be big!! Now in my early thirties, I am in far better shape now…being lean & toned & athletic!!