If you want to lose weight, you should use a healthy balance of different kinds of exercise. For example, if you lift weights all the time, you may build muscle. But that muscle will be hidden under a layer of fat thick or thin. So it’s not exactly the results you want. It should definitely be an integral part of your workout, and for lean muscle, of course use smaller weights. Just don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Instead, try combining this with aerobic or cardio workouts. These burn more fat, especially in aerobic stances, because you are burning calories at a different rate than you would by sprinting for example, and you burn more fat in those calories. So if you follow weight training with cardio, you get better results. In addition, if you participate in circuit training, which is essentially jumping back and forth between different muscle groups, you give each time to recover and therefore give you greater results. All of these can help you to burn more fat while building more muscle to maintain your results for a longer period of time. It just depends on you as far as getting all the results you want instead of just some of them.
