Weight lifting builds muscle, which increases overall body
strength, tone, and balance. Muscles also burn calories more
efficiently than fat and other body tissues. So even at rest the
more muscle tissue a person has the more calories a person is
burning.
Review Date: 07/17/2007
Reviewed By: Robert Hurd, MD, Professor of Endocrinology, Department of Biology,
Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, and physician in the Primary
Care Clinic, Cincinnati Veterans Administration Medical Center,
Cincinnati, Ohio. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
