Lifting Weights ?

[Dpilkington]

If i excercise everyday and if i use the weights everyday would i still lose weight if i use the weights alot.

Or if i lift to much would i put the weight on, im using dumb bells...

And ive started lifting alot !

i have noticed my chest getting a bit smaller but if i lift to much would i put weight on??
Please reply, thanks in advance..

There not extremely heavy but ive started using them alot in the gym an on a night before i go bed...

 

[Jeanette401]

If you eat more calories because you get hungry from your lifting you might gain weight, but that's simply a matter of calories. If you're eating less calories than you burn, you will not put on weight from lifting.

 

[Ando3242]

Lifting weights should actually help you lose weight. Adding muscle causes your body to burn more calories even when at rest. Don't be concerned about gaining weight if its muscle, which takes far longer than gaining fat. So keep up the weight lifting.

 

[clever_plant]

If you lift weights everyday then you'll probably destroy your muscles more than build them up, you'll also get overtrained pretty fast and you'll feel like crap and be less happy. Weights every other day, or at least a day or two of rest each week. Cardio you can do till you drop.

With regard to weight, sure you'll loose weight, you won't build muscle faster than loose weight if you have a reasonable caloric deficit.

 

[dmatos105]

It takes a considerable amount of time to "to put on weight" if you are trainging with dumbbells or any other method of using external load/resistance. In order to "put on weight" (in the form of fat and/or muscle), you would need to be in a caloric surplus- meaning you taking in more calories than you require. That is the ONLY way you would ever "put on weight" in such a program. If you are watching your caloric intake and eating the most nutrient dense foods along with a good weight training program, you would lose fat and gain muscle at the same time. If your eating habits haven't changed and you are not over-eating yet you feel "fuller" or that your clothes feel tighter, you shouldn't worry. This is not "weight" gain. When you train, you increase your body's ability to store glycogen. Along with glycogen comes water. There is a lot that goes into "putting on weight" or "decreasing weight," and all of that depends on your nutritional status. Exercising is just merely a stimulus and its effects are dictated by nutrition 100%.

 

[clever_plant]

Yeah, also, a lot of the "lifting heavier" for the first long stretch of beginning weight lifting is just your CNS getting better at controlling the muscles you actually have. Sort of like learning to play the guitar or whatever, you don't get HUGE fingers just because you learn to play power chords, you just get better at using your fingers

 

[geoffco23]

You sound like you need expert guidance. Get to a gym and ask the bloke behind the desk for advice. Tell them what you're trying to do, and they'll help you work out a routine AND they're also chock-full of great advice about diet. Nobody knows food better than a gym bunny. Fiddling about with dumbbells is no substitute for a planned workout routine. The good news is, you're on the right track: weight training is the absolute best way to control your weight and get in shape.

 

[clever_plant]

You sound like you need expert guidance. Get to a gym and ask the bloke behind the desk for advice. Tell them what you're trying to do, and they'll help you work out a routine AND they're also chock-full of great advice about diet. Nobody knows food better than a gym bunny.

Besides like... nutritionists, doctors, any generally educated person that knows the difference between woo and science and well... most people. Aren't gym bunnies usually just desk people? I know some gyms have actual trainers and physiotherapists but.. there is no guarantee what so ever.

Fiddling about with dumbbells is no substitute for a planned workout routine. The good news is, you're on the right track: weight training is the absolute best way to control your weight and get in shape.

While I agree with the first, is there any indication that the OP is "fidling about with dumbbells" ? I have better form than 95% of the people in my gym and I just used google, I also managed to figure out that compound > isolated, push and pull, try and achieve balance and remember rest.. all by my self but obviously getting a good program from an educated fitness instructor (which a lot of desk people in gyms aren't) is made of win.

Weight training however isn't at all the best way to control weight or get in shape, weight training is one of several ways to control weight, and to get in shape. What you eat is, by far, most important for controlling weight, and besides weights, cardio is also very important for getting in shape, since cardiovascular health is a much bigger problem in the general population compared to lack-of-muscle and/or CNS fail. Weights are excellent however and can provide some cardio health, just not all cardio health.