While most people think that cardio training is the way to go when you're trying to really increase the calorie burn of your workouts, weight training should to be overlooked.

When done properly, weight training can be an incredibly demanding activity as far as calorie burning is concerned, so it should most definitely be added to your current workout program.

Here's how to ramp up your weight lifting program to burn more calories.

Use A Slightly Higher Rep Range

One big mistake people make when trying to create fat burning weight lifting workouts is to take their rep range up to the fifteen to twenty range.

This is going to significantly decrease the amount of weight you're able to lift, which isn't something you want to be doing.

Instead, try and keep the rep range around 8 to twelve.

This will be high enough to generate a good amount of lactic acid - which is going to help increase the calorie burn, without sacrificing how much weight you're able to lift overall.

Take Shorter Breaks

Along with increasing the rep range, you'll also want to try and take slightly shorter breaks during your weight lifting program.

Typically, if say you're doing a set of five, you're going to be lifting very heavy and taking breaks in the one to two minute range - possibly higher if we're talking about very heavy squats.

When trying to increase the total calorie burn though, decreasing the rest to about forty-five seconds to a minute max is a smart move.

Yes, this will decrease the amount of weight you can lift slightly (since recover still has to be taking place), but it shouldn't be too significant.

Play around with your own workouts and find out how much rest is good for you in order to maximize the amount of weight lifted, while still keeping the rest rates short that you're getting good calorie burning benefits.

Use Compound Lifts

Finally, the third way you can increase the calorie burn dramatically with your weight lifting workouts to lose fat faster is using compound lifts over isolation.

So, rather than say doing a workout comprised of bicep curls, lateral raises, leg extensions, hamstring curls, and so on, change that up to do chest press, shoulder presses, squats, and deadlits.

You'll likely burn over twice as many calories with these compound movements because of the fact they are using so many more muscle fibers.

The fastest way to short-circuit a good calorie burning workout is to focus on only small muscle groups.

The more ‘fully-body' nature your workout takes on, the better (which is why the elliptical trainer typically burns more calories than the bike, as well).

So, if you're looking to make some changes in your current weight lifting program to get better results as far as weight loss go, be sure you keep these points in mind.

You don't necessarily have to change them all at once, but adding in one point every once in a while will be a very smart move.