I love this article! For those of you who don't know her, Kristie Belliston is a personal trainer and she also works for ICON Fitness on designing workout programs for exercise equipment, like treadmills and ellipticals. She also is featured on HSN a lot with fitness equipment shows.

She wrote this article and posted it on Facebook. It contains a lot of valuable information and her enthusiasm really shines through. She has a very inspiring and motivating personality. I hope you all benefit from reading it just as much as I did!

Why Strength Training is Important for Losing Weight

Very good article. Wish I had read it at the beginning of this weight loss process.

I have ALWAYS wondered why people say "if you lose weight too fast, it's a lot easier to put back on". I've always just believed it and gone with it, but now I understand why it is!! Great article, thanks for posting.

Great article!!! Before I started this journey I did a LOT of research, I thank God til this day that I started out with strength training. For anyone who hasn't, it is NOT too late! Start today! It has changed my entire shape, even weighing now what I weighed in High School, I am still smaller all around thanks go the strength training!

Thanks for posting!

That fat takes up a lot of space in the muscle, so it actually makes the muscle look bigger, because there's fat inside. When you start losing body fat, even if you're engaged in strength training, that intramuscular fat will begin to vanish. So even if your muscle mass begins to grow -- which, again, is very difficult for women to accomplish -- your overall muscle size is probably going to be smaller when you're at a lower percentage of body fat. The net change in your muscle size is going to be almost nothing, unless you really start to do strength training on a regular basis for a period of a year or two, and then you might actually begin to put on a little bit more muscle.<~~~~~~~~~~

I LOVE THAT PART! It frustrates me when I see people say "I'm up two pounds but it's probably from all the muscle I'm gaining. NO ITS NOT! Love that she broke that down!

Great article!! Thank you so much for sharing!!

I'm glad you all enjoyed it! There's a lot of great information in the article. A lot of women don't want to lift weights or do strength training because they think they'll get bulky, but that's really not the case. I'm so glad I started strength training myself! I can feel such a difference in the way I feel and my energy levels. I can go longer/faster with my cardio and I lose inches more quickly.

is the article posted anywhere else for those of us who can't facebook at work? :P

Excellent Article. Thank you for posting this!!!

shamrockin32 - Hmm...I think it's only posted on FB. Would you like me to copy and paste it in the thread?

You're welcome, bellastarr!