Quote Originally Posted by AdamGB
Surely she should know that the only way you burn a significant amount of fat from a weight lifting regime is indirectly by building lean muscle mass and raising your Basal Metabolic rate?

Lifting 'high reps and low weights' is not a part of anything other than resistance training. Are we confusing muscle toning exercises with fat loss here?

The duration of a a resistance exercise isn't long enough for your body to have to use your Aerobic system which is the only system that uses fat as an energy source. You'll be doing well to be using the Lactic system for half of it... ATP-CP is what will primarily be used.

The only exercises that are good for targeting fat stores are low intensity, long duration rhythmical exercises that recruit large muscles groups.

Long duration isn't the amount of time it takes your lactic acid and ATP-CP systems to fatigue... by the time you've finished your set they're already resynthesizing ATP.
Yeah she doesnt have a clue your right
The NSCA Certification means not a thing,or when I wanted to move up to heaveyweight in the 90's and she got me from 170 to 210 within a matter of months
When you lift at high weights,your creating bulk,when you lift at low weights your creating a burn off factor
When you run all your really doing is carrying yourself at a high rate of speed
Same as how your supposed to be lifting when your doing lighter weights
But your supposed to be doing it at a high speed enough rate to up your heart rate and burn fat
One of the things she constantly had to beat in to my head,was if I wanted the bulk,I said I wanted,Id have to constantly push the weight,otherwise all I was doing was burning fat