If you have ever gotten yourself onto a regular routine of cardiovascular exercise, you will be able to attest to how wonderful the quick results can be.

Time on the treadmill, elliptical or even just a regular walks around the block can do wonders to a body that has been inactive for a long while.

But, if you have restricted your physical weight loss efforts to purely aerobic exercises, you are missing a major component that could give you a massive boost in terms of fast, effective, long-term weight loss - weight training.

Weight training can often seem like an intimidating proposal. When you walk into that section of the gym, you are likely to find some of the die-hard enthusiast who spends hours training every night and often grunt, loudly!

The thought of fumbling around the weights, trying to pick the right weight for you, or messing around with the weight lifting machines and getting everything wrong in front of an audience, can be enough to make you skip the weight lifting altogether and just focus on the cardio since it works so well anyway.

As we have discussed, this would be a mistake, so let’s look at a resource that can help you get past your lack of information.

In his weight loss book, Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle, author Tom Venuto, gives a thorough education on weight lifting for weight loss in one quick chapter.

I love the FAQ part of this chapter. It breaks down what could be a boring subject to anyone who isn’t interested in trying out for a medal and presents the information in a format that is quick and easy to read. Because of the question and answer format, it seems to get to issues that matter to me quickly.

I began to understand the need for a personal fitness trainer when I read through this section Venuto explains the logic behind the plateau most people experience and the best way to combat it, changing up your exercises regularly.

He gives a few combinations of various weight lifting schedule that readers can follow and explains how to mix and match them so that the varied sessions will last much longer before you need a new tool bag of exercises.

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