If you want to be healthier, if you want to be stronger, lose weight, gain muscle, or just look and feel better, strength training WILL do just that! Whether you’re 100+ pounds overweight or just need to lose a few pounds, strength training is one of the most effective ways to build muscle and to burn fat.
Life is just better when you’re strong:
Rearranging furniture? Easy Peasy.
Carrying children (or pets)? Not a problem.
Feel like a Superhero? YEP!
How Strength Training will help as we age:
Halt sarcopenia: As we age our skeletal muscle deteriorates, which is a condition known as sarcopenia. Strength training has been found to reduce the negative effects of sarcopenia allowing us to maintain an independent lifestyle and possibly live longer.
Prevent disease and conditions: Strength training helps correct issues relating to cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes – all factors for heart disease. Cardiologists are starting to recommend strength training for people who have suffered a heart attack as little as a few weeks after the attack.
Improve the quality of life for people with: arthritis, anxiety, osteoporosis, Parkinson’s Disease, lymphedema, fibromyalgia, who have recently had a stroke, cancer survivors and depression. These special population groups are strongly recommend incorporating strength training to slow down the progression of the disease, decrease their risk for other comorbidities, and decrease their risk for premature death.
Strength training has a lot of great benefits right now.
- Lose weight, look good, feel good: You can find study after study that shows us the benefits of strength training for weight management when combined with eating fewer calories than you burn every day.,
- Strength training can help increase your metabolism by speeding up your Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR). It takes your body more calories to maintain muscle than it does to maintain fat, WOW just WOW!
In order for you to lose weight, look and feel better, you want to do two things:
- Build muscles stronger and tighter
- Burn the fat on top of it
And luckily, both of those things happen concurrently through strength training!