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Weight Training Raises Your Basal Metabolism.  

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Weight Training Raises Your Basal Metabolism Perhaps the biggest advantage of weight training for the average person is that well-toned muscles burn more calories than unworked muscles. Working out regularly with weights will boost your metabolism to the point that you are burning more calories even when just sitting down watching TV. Aerobics may burn more calories while you are doing it, but the effects of weight training last far longer after you leave the gym. This is very important once you reach the age of thirty. It's a natural fact of life that as we get older our metabolism slows down. A calorie intake that once maintained our bodyweight now starts piling inches around the waist. But a regular weight training program helps reverse this effect. We may not be stopping the clock but we are definitely slowing it down! Weight training has a positive affect on almost all of your 650+...

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