Circuit training?

This is the best way to burn fat regarding weight lifting. It's easy, but it can be difficult. Personally, I find it to be more difficult than a lot of cardio sessions including HIIT.

Say you have 8 different exercises for the day, 3 sets for each exercise. What you'll do is 1 set of your first exercise, rest for 15-20 seconds to get a gulp of water, then do the 1st set of your second exercise, rest again, and then continue the process until you do 1 set of each exercise. Then you'll rest for 2-3 minutes, and do it all over again. You do this process for a total of 3 sets, so each exercise is done 3 times.

The pros: burns more fat, same amount of lifting in less time, gets your heart working.
The cons: probably won't pack on as much muscle, not as fun.

Try it out.

So you want to lose weight...

Sorry all, but there's no one way to lose weight. There are many, many ways to do so, but all are derived from a similar formula. First and foremost, check the diet I posted before; it's necessary. I'm going to give a brief overview in this post, and then go into more detail later on.

You have your diet, now you need your exercise. You have your cardio and your weight lifting. The basic thing to know is this: cardio will get the job done quicker, but it will sacrifice some muscle in the process. Weightlifting will get the job done slower, but it will burn pure fat and sacrifice no muscle (rather it will help you tone). If you are trying to lose lots of weight (more than 20 lbs.) in a short period of time (under 2 months), then you need to do both cardio and weightlifting. If you have time, and you are not trying to lose mass amounts of weight, then you need very little cardio or none at all!

Also - the most weight you should be losing is 10 lbs. per month. That comes to 2.5 lbs. per week, but some people would say 3 lbs. isn't much of a difference. Any more than that, and it's just not healthy weight loss. Your body isn't meant to undergo such dramatic changes in such short amounts of time.

Read on.