When you are young and handsome, then you can really eat what ever you want and not gain any fat at all. But as time goes on and we get older we no longer have the ability to do that. Most people know that metabolism has got something to do with it. But this process can be reversed and it is not that hard at all. The secret is weight training.

Weight training and fat loss

The reason why your body slowly starts to put on fat is because you just don't exercise enough. And if people don't exercise than we start losing muscle tissue and have less energy. If we have less energy than we get even less active and that makes use gain even more fat. The more fat we gain the harder it gets to start losing fat. The sooner you start with fat loss the better.

All of the top 100 meter sprinters have no fat and a lot of muscle mass. That is because sprinters spend a lot of time in the gym lifting weights to build muscle. They don´t spend hours and hours on long and boring aerobic exercises. Muscle is the ultimate fat burner.

A bodybuilder can eat something like 5000 calories and still have single digit body fat percentage, but if a person who has very little muscle mass and an awful lot of fat, then he would gain fat very quickly. Some bodybuilders don´t even have to do aerobic workouts when getting ready for a competition, they just make a few changes to their diet. The goal is to feed the muscle not starve it.

When you are starting out with weight training then always get some help from a fitness coach. You also have to know exactly what type of exercises you should do, what are the right techniques, what food to eat and so on. But without weight training you will never achieve permanent fat loss.