Weight Loss Tips

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.