What weights for fat loss?

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Am I right in thinking that when trying to lose fat, some light weight training is also a good idea? Based on that, what weight dumbells should I be looking for, as someone who's never done weights before?

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IMO - To burn fat and tone up - Just stick to a low weight which you can manage quite easy and do a high amount of reps - try not to have a long rest in between sets (give yourself about 30secs or less).

Example = 4 sets of 15+ reps

You can then progress from here if you want and use heavier weights and lower reps to gain muscle & strength

Hope you do well :)
 
Pulsar_GTI said:
IMO - To burn fat and tone up - Just stick to a low weight which you can manage quite easy and do a high amount of reps - try not to have a long rest in between sets (give yourself about 30secs or less).

Example = 4 sets of 15+ reps

You can then progress from here if you want and use heavier weights and lower reps to gain muscle & strength

Hope you do well :)
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Cheers. So what weight should I be after? Seen a set that has 1.5, 3 and 5kg bells.
 
If you want fat loss, cut down on calories and improve your diet cutting out fatty foods if you don't already and start doing HIIT. Doing light weights alone won't achieve much.
 
I agree with the low weight/high rep shout. I would say that you should go with what feels like a heavy weight, you'll soon go past that and it'll feel like nothing. Before that point you would normally add weight but if you don't want to add muscle then stay at that weight. If you eat the right foods in the right amounts at the right times and do the right cardio it'll help out.

The weights are the least important though.
 
Pulsar_GTI said:
yeh what ever you feel comfortable with, are you looking to buy some for home?

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Aye, just want a cheap set for home. I'd link to the ones I've looking at but pretty sure they'd be classed as a competitor.
 
If its Argos or whatever you're OK linking to them as long as it isn't computer goods, etc.
 
Most important parts are to nail your diet. Most people respond best to a high fat/low carb diet. But dont just drop to this, do it slowly, dropping by 100-200 calories a week and dont just drop to something like 30g of carbs, again droping down over a period of time.

It'll take some time to work out what diet will work for you but its worth it. A great tip is to drink LOADS of ice cold water. 1L = 30kcals burned (approx) due to the body using energy to heat it up.

As for workouts get to a gym, theres no substitute, 3times a week. Find a routine you like on the net and work in the 15rep range, you can do 10-12 if you want but it REALLY should be SLOW (up and down) get used to form or you'll regret it later. Do the whole workout quickly, knock down rest times in between to have more of a CV affect. Look at HIIT sprints for added and a different kind of fatloss, but only do this after you're on track with weights.

Good luck and cut out the booze and junk
 
I'd be more inclined to go for something like this. if you do want to extend the weights at any point down the line you can do, those ones you've linked to will be next to useless.
 
Yeh i would leave those one you have your eye on, as Gilly said if you want to extend the weights in the future they would be useless.

Gilly link is to a better quality weight (iron weights) set than my link (plastic) but in my link you get a barbell for an extra £5 ;)
 
Erm...

Light weight has nothing to do with losing fat. All light weight/high rep will do is increase muscle endurance. Sure, your heart rate will be increased for longer, but it won't be at the point where it's worth it. If you want to do conditioning, you're better off doing bodyweight tabata intervals or HIIT.

You'll want to do weight training that'll increase your metabolism, as that's what increases fat loss at rest rate. Medium-high weight, medium-high reps (I'm talking about 60-80% 1 rep max (RM) weight and 3-10 reps). It really depends if you're after strength (low rep, high weight) or hypertrophy (med weight, med rep).

Like the others have said - there's really no substitute to diet. Eat more frequently, but with a less amount per meal (6 meals per day is good - 3 hours apart).
 
Phyre is right.

You can do light weights and high reps, making sure your BPM is nice and high, using this instead of some cardio, however, it will be rare that your heart rate will be as high as a normal cardio session for an extended period of time.

You should know that putting on a few lean lb's will mean your daily calories burnt will go up. The more lean mass you have, the more calories you burn (hence the needed for bigger people to eat more to stay big).
So, doing weights to gain some mass is a good thing, and no im not talking about becoming the next Jay Cutler.
 
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