Elevate your metabolism with weight training

So many crazy diets out there, so many new diet commercials on TV, diet books, fat burning pills. But do they really work? What is a science behind it? Any scientific background to back it up? Usually when they do not have any science behind it, they hire a celebrity (movie star, rock star, model) to promote their products. Very sad. But it is true.
But let's talk about science and what scientists say about how you can burn body fat and not what Hollywood diets want you to believe.

Researchers from Wisconsin University found out that training with weights at fairly high intensities (70% of your max) can boost your metabolism for up to two days after a workout.
What happens with your body is following:
- your muscle temperature will increase
- energy production will be increased within your body
- Uncoupling proteins are stimulated. These proteins cause cells to metabolize and you will burn body fat (release excess energy).
Uncoupling proteins are a unique group of closely related proteins that are known to be involved in thermogenesis and play important roles in obesity, diabetes, fatty acid metabolism, suppression of oxygen radicals and nuerodegeneration.

Weight training will demage your muscle cells and that requires energy (calories) to repair your muscle fibers. This burns calories also.

Now you know if you want to burn body fat, you have to do weight training in combination with science based nutrition.