increased strength, muscle tone, bond density and general fitness.
Lifting weights will make your muscles contrast and burn fat from your body while strengthening the muscles at the same time. It will help you gain muscle.
This depends on the person and the kind of weight lifting you do. The short answer however is that lifting weights should help you to lose fat and gain muscle. If you are lifting heavily in order to gain muscle mass, you will gain weight. However, if you are lifting to get lean muscle, it should help to lose weight.
With pilates you are lifting your own mass, so it is fundamentally equivalent to lifting weights.
The quickest way to build muscle is to start lifting weights. Start off with lighter weights until you can lift them easier and start increasing the weights.
If you want to build muscle you have to get sore, if you don't your just maintaining.
This answer depends on your diet. If you continue to consume the same amount of calories after you quit lifting, then yes you may get fat. Lifting weights burns calories and muscles need these calories to build more muscle. If you quit lifting weights, your body no longer needs as many calories. Also, your metabolism will slow after you quit lifting weights. Now, if you quit lifting weights and also cut calories, you will not get fat.
Are you asking "Will lifting weights one hour per year result in increased muscle mass?" If so the answer is NO!
If you are lifting weights while you are on the scale you are bound to weigh more. However, if you find that after you have been lifting weights you weigh more this could be due to the fact that muscle weighs more than fat.
No. This is one of the things that is commonly misunderstood about lifting heavy weights. Lifting weights is not bad. There are people that squat four times their body weight and they have never been injured badly. If you do exercises with proper form, you will be able to gain muscle without injuring yourself.
Drinkin Whey Protein right after lifting weights is very benificial to the amount of muscle mass you gain from working out.
Yes, like any muscle it can be strained.