Maintaining Muscle Tone
If you have lost weight, you may have found that your muscle tone has actually gone down or maybe it hasn’t gone down, but it just isn’t showing the way you actually want it to, because it is still covered to a larger degree by excess fat. But frankly, the way to beat this is to lift weights. Good for you on losing significant weight for sure, but that’s only half the battle. You of course want to lose fat, and if you lose more fat, you are more likely to be able to define the muscle.
But if you build that muscle up, even with small reps and weights to just get lean muscle mass instead of bulky muscle mass, then obviously when that fat goes away, you won’t just look like a stick and you can actually be able to better maintain weight loss because lean muscle mass, especially when properly maintained, will actually help you to increase your metabolism and therefore increase your body’s natural ability to burn more calories and keep them from turning into more fat in the future. This is something many often forget about. But if you get it right, you can get better benefits that you are looking for.