TIP #15 WHY WEIGHTS ARE SO IMPORTANT
For one thing, weights are important because if you're not sweating, then you're not working. If you aren't sweating after a workout, then you haven't burned any fat. Sweat is a great indicator that you are burning fat and getting rid of toxins in your body. Using weights can make this process faster.
If any exercise that you are doing, whether it be swimming, jogging, walking, dancing, sports, anything, if you start to feel truly exhausted, you are not helping yourself to get into shape, quite the opposite actually. When you start to feel like you can't go on and you are hurting, you could be damaging your heart or other organs. Exercise should feel good, you should feel alive, it should give you energy, and it should be fun. Of course, there is always a difference between actually hurting yourself and just being lazy, so it is up to you to tell the difference. You know when you are being lazy and when you are not. And it shouldn't be a complete piece of cake, there should be a little bit of a challenge, but you should find ways to feel good in doing it.
One way to do that is, you could keep telling yourself that the burn feels good because that burn means it's working. I like to picture that all that burning is my muscles heating up and burning the fat on top of it right off my body.
But even when swimming, jogging, walking, riding a bike, dancing, playing sports, or exercising in any way, adding weights to the equation boosts up your results in less time, and gives you beautifully defined muscles. Using weights does not mean you will bulk up and look too muscular, you can even start with 1 pound weights if you wish. If it feels TOO easy, you should bump it up a little, but if it feels TOO hard, then you should tone it down. A lot of times you will find 1 pound is too easy, but 2 pounds is too hard or 2 pounds is too easy but 3 pounds is too hard. (and so on) In these cases, stick with the easier one until you are comfortable moving onto the harder one.
You don't want to be weight lifting for hours and hours a day, and you don't have to wear ankle weights or wrist weights all day long. You are not looking to tire yourself out. But if you are going for walks, for example, your body is already use to carrying around the weight that it carries all day. So if you are 150 pounds, it is use to carrying 150 pounds and it doesn't need to work harder to do so just because you decided to exercise. While your body may not be use to a lot of activity, or extra activity, it will not be as effective to just simply walk as it would be to walk with weights.
You are causing your body to pump it up by adding extra weight that it is not use to carrying around, causing the muscles to work a little harder. In this way, you are burning fat, and without the weights, you are just keeping your body moving so that it still works. If you don't use your body, it will start to slow down. Walking will become harder, and diseases "related to age" may start to cut in. By using your body, you stop this from happening or slow the process down, so it is important to keep moving. But if you want to burn fat and get rid of pounds, using weights will help you do that.
If you walk on a treadmill, put it to the "hill" setting so that you are climbing, if you are riding a bike or bike exercise machine, put more resistance on it so that you have to work a little harder. Find exercises that you feel are fun so you don't get bored of doing them. Find ways to enjoy them and look forward to them so you do them everyday, and make sure you use some kind of weights.
Also make sure that once you get use to the weights, that you increase the pounds. Your body will get use to it and it will not work as affectively, so you have to put it into a little bit of a shock again, and increase the weight. Just make sure you are ready for it when you do, and go up slowly. Don't move from 2 pounds to 10 as your next step, and don't go up any if it is too hard to do so. Take your time, it's not a race, you have all the time in the world. Be patient, you'll get there.
So, TIP #15 make sure to exercise daily, and add weights to every exercise. It can be as small as one pound, just make sure you use a weight that is not too easy and not too hard. Don't burn yourself out, have fun with it, and remember to increase the pounds on the weight as you get comfortable with them. Incorporate weights into every exercise and you'll be burning fat in no time!
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