Lifting weights increases the number of calories you burn while you are sitting at your desk or on your couch. One reason for this is that your muscles need energy to repair and and upgrade your muscle fibers after each resistance training workout. A University of Wisconsin study found that after performing a total-body workout comprising of just three big-muscle exercises, metabolisms were elevated for 39 hours afterward. In addition, a greater percentage of calories from fat were burned during this time, compared with those who did not lift weights.
Even though many feel that jogging burns more calories than weight training, scientists at the University of Southern Maine found that lifting weights burns as many as 71 percent more calories that originally thought. They calculated that performing just one circuit of eight exercises - which takes about 8 minutes - can expend 159 to 231 calories. This is about the same number of calories burned by running at a 6-minute mile pace for the same duration.
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very interesting! and even the disabled can lift weights while they may not be able to jog!
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