Many men think that by lifting any sort of weight will eventually result in lean muscle.
This is wrong.
If you want to learn how to properly get lean muscle, this article is for you.
Learn why lifting light weights is useless for building lean muscle and why heavy weights are the BEST way to get lean muscle.
Also, learn HOW to lift heavy weights to best exploit muscle to make it grow.
Light weights are only useful for one thing: burning calories.
It's popular belief that lifting light weights will "tone" your muscles, which is ridiculous.
Toning, implies burning fat and tightening your skin over your muscle to give it some definition.
What's a light weight you lift? 10 lbs? What else is 10 lbs? Do you think that lifting something that's 10 lbs will burn fat? Burning fat can only be done if the amount of calories you take is less than the amount of calories you take out.
This can be achieved by speeding up your metabolism and putting your body in an energy deficit, causing it to consume your fat storage instead of attacking your muscle for sustenance.
Heavy weights can achieve this.
You can build lean muscle by lifting weights that are above your threshold.
You can check out what's your lifting threshold by doing the following.
Find yourself a set of weights.
Start lifting each of them, until you find one where you can only lift it a few reps, around 8-10 reps.
That will be your starting threshold and you should ideally push to lift in this vicinity from 2 weeks to a month consistently.
Why? Because the more you lift, the more your muscles will grow.
You will continue building upon this by increasing your lifting weight by a few pounds.
Make sure to also take sufficient rest so that your hormonal, immune and nervous system can recover, not to mention your muscles physically.