Strength training can also be used to increase muscle strength and endurance by lifting lighter weight in a higher rep range, such as eight to 12, or 15 to 20. When looking at the effectiveness of weight-loss exercises in terms of calories burned per minute, weight training comes second to cardio.
If we look at the kind of persons most likely to be eligible -- single mothers living in poverty with children under 18 to support -- we find little difference in welfare participation by race: 74.6% of African Americans in such dire straits are on welfare, compared with 64.5% of the poor white single moms.
But many seem perfectly willing to give up that independence for security. By this measure, according to the report, 23.1 percent of Americans were recipients of welfare in 2011. Since 1993, the earliest year covered by the report, that is the highest percentage of Americans reported to be receiving welfare. A startling 38 percent of all children 5 and under in the United States were welfare recipients in 2011, according to the report.