Weight Loss Myth - Doing High Reps With Light Weights Will Burn More Fat and "Tone"

This has been drilled into our heads for years! Just pick up any magazine and you'll see a picture of an attractive, slender, lean female, holding super light weights, suggesting that she got her body by effortlessly curling 5 pound weights 20 to 25 times each arm. Yeah right. And this is transferred into the gym, where you'll find the majority of the women lifting light weights because they have been told that is how you lose weight and to "tone" up, and you will find most of the men are lighting much heavier weights for much fewer reps to build muscle. But is this really the case? More...