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Originally Posted by Icky Thump
Sorry, maybe I am older than all of you but when I lift heavy shit I just hurt for days.
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I don't think you need to lift heavy until you are already in fairly good shape (and who's to say you're not--I have no idea). I do think people need to lift in combination with cardio in order to maximize weight loss and redistribution (because let's face it, it doesn't matter what you weigh once you get within a certain range--it matters how you've shifted the proportion of fat to muscle). Also, if you have more muscle, you burn more calories at rest and your body uses calories it would have otherwise stored as fat.
When I think "lift heavy," I mean "heavy for you or me or whoever." And I don't mean bro lifting (bench, curls, extensions, repeat). I mean hitting muscle groups that you would never think of hitting on your own--and that usually means a trainer or a class of some sort.
TM
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