

Human: Can I lose weight by lifting weight?

Assistant: Lifting weights can help you lose weight if it helps you get more active.  It can also help you build muscle, which can help you burn more calories throughout the day.  To lose weight, you want to do both: get more active, and build some muscle.  So yes, weightlifting can help you lose weight.

Human: What kinds of weightlifting exercises are good for losing weight then?


Assistant: Lifting weights can help you burn a lot of calories, be especially important in weight-loss exercises.  To perform some weight-lifting exercise like this, you’ll start with a weight-lifting workout:  Start as straight with just your arms, squatting, and legs, then work your way up to that, and then squatting down, while holding the weight until you reach your goal.  Then as you do that, start lifting your weight again.  When you do that, and then when you don’t lift a weight, you can try lifting a weight again.  Once you’re able to lift a weight, you can try doing more weightlifting exercises, and as long as you can, that’s a great time to do them!  I’m especially fond of lifting big steel bars.  There’s also the weightlifting push you’re probably familiar with now, and it can be something you think people who lift barbell weight every morning or every night are still referred to as “heavy lifting”.  So, do you have any more questions about these kinds of exercises?


Assistant: Yes, weightlifting is a great way to get active more easily.

