Strength training will help increase your ratio of lean muscle to body fat, enabling you to burn more calories and to trim and shape your figure. Lean muscle weighs more than fat but healtheir for you and helps give you
that taut, defined shape. Aerobic exercise such as bicycling, rowing or (if you use a wheelchair) other types of arm-cycling are all important, since they will complecement the weight training with additional fat-burning.