Weight Loss Tips

Nowadays, there’s always someone selling a diet that ‘works’,  skinny teas that will help you lose massive weight and so on. If you are female and want to dive into strength training, you will hear repeated choruses about how lifting weights will make you bulky; that you will practically turn into the incredible hulk should you attempt to lift any weights heavier than the lovely pink and purple dumbells designed for ladies. If your knowledge is limited, you will spend your life believing these common fitness myths. 

This week’s Fitness Chat Feature Friday is with Rochelle Louw, a Biokenist at the University of Pretoria and comes highly recommended by the Biokinetics Association of South Africa. Rochelle discusses why women should lift weights in depth, and her points are backed by science.

We are talking about why women should not be afraid to lift weights in order to change the preconceived ideas people have about women performing weight training and to bring to the forefront the benefits of weightlifting.

As defined by the Mayo Clinic, metabolism is the process by which your body converts what you eat and drink into energy. The body expends energy even when you are at rest. You burn calories sitting on the couch all day but there are ways to boost metabolism to burn even more calories.