The Myths and Truths of Strength Training
Body building involves lifting weights on bars and using resistance devices to increase strength and muscle mass. There are excellent results for those who partake in strength training and there are also misconceptions that are completely untrue.
The The Facts:
The benefits of weight training:
- Helps to build strength and helps with muscle growth.
- It improves your mood. In the brain, endorphins are released, this can relieve depression and anxiety.
- Lessens the threat of brittle bones by making bones stronger and adding density to bones.
- Makes you less likely to suffer from back ache or pulled muscles because strength training adds flexibility to muscles and tendons, ensuring that they are less likely to torn or pulled.
- Improves your posture which can instantly give the appearance of a long lean body.
- Speeds up the metabolism by up to 15%, ensuring a bigger calorie to energy conversion which helps a loss of body fat.
- New found strength will give you poise and is fantastic for building self belief.
- May halt the decline in metabolism experienced by the middle-aged, making you feel younger and slimmer.
- Can benefit the immune system, enabling it to fend off disease and infection easily.
- May improve your balance and co-ordination which will improve your ability in other exercises and sports as well as in your day to day life.
- Weight training decreases your chances of developing diabetes.
The Myths:
- Lots of women presume that weight training is only for men and that they lack the strength to exercise in this way. This is false, most people is suitable for resistance training, no matter what sex they are.
- Another misguided theory is that strength training will give woman obscenely large muscles. This is impossible. Weight training will result in regular toned muscles. Women cannot produce enough testosterone to develop huge muscles. Women probably get this idea from photographs of women who lift weights competitively who most likely take of supplements and spend a lot of time training for competitions. Women will not get anywhere near this type of result by doing an average weight resistance work out.
- It is assumed that aerobic work outs is more productive then weight training because of the greater amount of burned calories when in reality, by gaining one pound of muscle through weight training, an extra 50 calories are burned daily. Strength training improves your body’s effectiveness in burning calories… even when you’re doing nothing.
Conclusion:
In summary, weight training lowers the risk of developing a number of health complications, boosts your metabolism and your potential to burn calories, enables good health and a toned body and can be enjoyed by both men and women. Maybe it’s time to try it out and prepare to be impressed!