I'm looking for a pissing contest? Please... I'm putting points across and you start kicking and screaming about what qualifications your friend has...

You need to learn some Literature skills... I said that endurance based resistance training (or high reps, low weights I think you called it) plays no significant roll in fat loss... I did say that lifting for strength and lean mass will play a roll in fat loss... like I said... it's gonna raise your Basal Metabolic rate.

You still haven't actually made a valid point as far as I can see. Like I said you're just throwing anecdotes and links from mickey mouse sites like about.com around... where does it actually give any scientific theory or facts to support what it or you are saying on about.com?

You should, so there? not good enough I'm afraid.

All the other one says is that lifting should be part of any fat loss program... I agree... it says you need to build lean mass which will make your burn more calories at rest by raising your BMR... it doesn't say that you should be lifting light weights and high reps to do this though does it... you couldn't build enough lean mass for it to make any difference to your BMR worth talking about. Muscular Endurance training isn't going to stimulate an awful lot of hypertrophy.

I'm gonna add my two cents to 'do some crunches before you hit the weights'... what for... a few crunches won't do shit and your abdominal and core training should come at the end of your training anyway... no point in fatiguing them first for a number of reasons...

1) your core supports you during lifts, particularly compound.
2) Because you've already torn the fibres and I reactivating them quite heavily during dead lifts etc you're gonna end up getting a hernia
3) you want to end your work out on the floor... get the heart rate down, down start it on the floor and cool down.

can't really see what I am saying that is out there or controversial or untested... this is all time proven basic fact.