Do people burn more calories lifting weights and how much after they're done lifting do they continue to burn calories?

I heard that people who lift weight burn more calories because their muscles are working harder instead of large group of muscle that are used during cardio workouts. and i am not finding any articles for my research paper about this. I've seen it on bodybuilding and other websites but I need an actual article from a data base

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Hello Lexi

Go to two different databases to find articles: Ebscohost and LexisNexis Academic.

If you go to Ebscohost, then combine databases with a check mark to search across them like: Academic Search Premier, HealthSource Academic, AltHealth Watch, Consumer Health Complete, CINAHL and Social Science Index FT and the other health and wellness databases you can find in the suite, because they have Sports journals in them.

I would start by combining terms like: weight lifting AND calories. When I did this search I got  (2 articles)

cardio workouts AND calories. When I did this search I got (76 articles)

exercise AND calories . When I did this search I got (175 articles)

weight loss AND calories

You might want to try the same searches in LexisNexis Academic, but I would choose Browse Sources and then choose Sports and recreation as a topic before doing your search.

When doing this searches I would look on the left handside of the screen at the "Subject; Thesaurus Terms" to help with terms for expanding your search if you don't find what you are searching for.

If you need additional help, pleae contact me at 785-248-2536.

Gloria Creed-Dikeogu, Myers Library

 

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