Building muscle through strength training boosts your resting metabolism so your body burns more calories without dieting. It also shifts your mindset from restriction to wanting to train, making weight loss feel like something you're working toward instead of something you're denying yourself.
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Benefits of strength training and hypertrophy specifically and putting on muscle is it actually makes it easier to lose fat in the long run.
I think the benefit of strength training and training with weights is that it shifts people's mindset from being about lack of, I need to get rid of these foods to achieve my goal, and shifts them into, I look forward to my training, I want to lift more on the bar, and switches that mindset from pain to performance.
