For a lot of people weight loss is a big struggle and it is something that people don’t like to do, although they have to. If a person is able to lose weight after a long struggle, then keeping the weight off, is almost impossible. The reason why people find it very difficult to lose weight, is because they do it the hard way not the easy way.

Fast and easy way to lose weight

A really easy way to get rid of extra fat around your belly and hips is to start building your muscles with weight training. That is right weight training the easy way to lose weight/fat. Most people avoid weight training at all cost and only focus on cardio training, but these people are also not able to lose weight. Why do you think the world’s best sprinters have a very low body fat percentage?

They do not spend hours and hours every week doing very long and boring cardio sessions. A they certainly do not go no very low calorie diets. The secret of course is muscle mass. The more muscle mass you have the faster your basal metabolic rate (BMR) is. We can easily see the difference of lean body mass makes when you want to burn fat.

Example:

BMR (men and women) = 370 + (21.6 X lean mass in kg)

A guy weighing 120 kg with a body fat percentage of 25%, has a BMR of 2314 calories. Lets say the same exact person 6 moths later, after building some muscles with weight training at 120 kg, with 15% body fat, has a BMR of 2573 calories. So what does this difference mean?

This means that the same person weighing exactly the same as he did before, with 15% body fat is burning 259 calories more during the day. There is 3500 calories in one pound of fat, so the guy would lose 1 pound of fat, after every 13.5 days. That is more than 2 pounds of pure fat in a month without doing anything at all. If this is not a easy way to lose weight (fat), then I don´t know what is. Impressed?