When you are trying to lose weight, changing your diet to a healthier one is a great start but you also need to think about exercise. The most beneficial exercise is an aerobic one such as an exercise class, spinning, running on a treadmill, etc, but there's also a lot to be gained by incorporating a weight training program into your exercise regime.
Don't be put off by the muscles and large amounts of weights that some of the more experienced weight lifters at the gym display. Many of these are there not to lose weight but to gain muscle. This isn't why you're going. You don't need to gain muscle, but rather tone up what muscle you have.
When you follow a weight training program for muscle tone, rather than muscle gain, you will be using lighter weights but you will do many more repetitions with these lighter weights. These can be resistance exercises where you are pushing your body against the weights, or lifting exercises where you lift the weights in a specific way to tone the different areas of your body.
One of the great things about a weight training program as opposed to just buying a couple of hand weights and doing the same exercises at home is that you start with a qualified instructor who will show you the correct way to breathe, hold your posture and explain the muscle groups that each weight exercise works. Once you know what you're doing, then you could carry this on at home if you wanted to, but for those who are new to weight training, enrolling on a weight training program is the best way to get off to a safe start.
After you have been attending regular sessions on your weight training program you'll start to feel a difference in how you hold your posture, even when you're not at the gym. This has an added bonus of helping your spine to keep in shape. You also learn how to lift weights safely and this knowledge transfers into your daily life which again takes stress from your spine because you start to lift things more carefully.
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