DON'T RUN AWAY FROM STRENGTH TRAINING

Don't Run Away From Strength Training
If you have more muscle, then you will burn more calories throughout the day! Gain that muscle!!

What is Strength Training?
Strength training also called weight lifting or resistance training, is exercise where you are using resistance to condition your musculoskeletal system (muscles and bones), this improves your muscles ability to work effectively without tiring as quickly as usual. A bonus, you get an improvement in your muscle tone, strength as well as appearance.

If you consistently strength train you will increase in bone, tendon (attach bone to muscle), and ligament strength (ligaments attach bone to bone). If these improve your appearance will improve as well as your physical capabilities and metabolism. If you combine your strength training program with a solid cardiovascular training program you'll have an amazing exercise program. It may just be the key to helping you accomplish your goals.

Our physical appearance as well as our physical performance can be enhanced with the gain of more muscle or even hindered by muscle loss. Once we pass the age of 25 we begin to lose muscle mass about three to five percent per decade. If you do strength training it will help in preventing this loss. this will allow you to continue doing all the things we are so used to doing, such as walking upstairs, carrying groceries, getting in and out of the car or bathtub.

I bet you'd be surprised at the amount of strength that such common things requie. Many people actually believe that it is normal to stop being active as we age and instead rely on canes to move around. There is no reason why we all can not be active in our "golden years." (Alive, No. 282, p123, April 06)