12 Best Weightlifting Exercises to Help You Lose Weight

ACE-certified trainer Rachel MacPherson recommends lunges to help with weight loss. You can do them in place by stepping one foot forward and then stepping back to the starting position or make it harder by doing walking lunges. "Walking lunges use unilateral training to increase your heart rate and increase metabolism for weight loss," MacPherson says. "The continuous walking motion used for walking lunges makes them more of an efficient fat burner than regular lunges."

• Stand with feet together, holding dumbbells at your side.
• Take a controlled step forward with your left leg, bending your knees to lower your hips toward the floor. Stop when your front thigh is parallel to the floor, and your back knee is hovering just off the ground. Try to keep your front knee should be directly over your ankle.
• Press your left heel into the ground, and push off with your right foot to bring your right leg forward, stepping with control into a lunge on the other side. That's one rep.
• Do three sets of 8-10 reps.