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By Elizabeth Quinn, About.com Guide to Sports Medicine since 1998

Twice a Week Weight Training Prevents Weight Gain in Women

Wednesday March 8, 2006
Women who lift weights twice a week can prevent or at least slow the weight gain common in middle age. This is the finding of a two year study titled The Strong, Healthy and Empowered (SHE).
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February 16, 2007 at 7:03 pm
(1) Jim O'Connor says:

This is absolutely the case. I have personally conducted thousands of fitness training sessions with women throughout Los Angeles. It is not about the quantity of workouts, but the quality. Workout out with weights will develop fat burning, metabolically active lean tissue. The weight training session stimulates lean tissue development that occurs only during the rest day. Therefore, weight training two days each week is shown to be optimal.

I discuss this in my free Wellness Word fitenss programming mini-course, and online multimedia fitness newsletter. Cutting edge health fitness content is delivered in multimedia format empowering consumers with the fitness truth.

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