5 Reasons Why You Should Weight Train
27th May 2011 3:15:00 pm
Written by Rachel Fairweather
- Weight training can change the shape of your body, it can broaden your shoulders and narrow your waist. It can taper a man’s body and make a woman sleeker. With weights, it’s truly possible to sculpt your flesh, to help alter your proportions.
- Weight Training can help stall the march of time, as we naturally begin to age, we begin to lose muscle (after the age of 30), as much as half a pound a year, the muscle doesn’t disappear it shrinks and fat begins to cover the muscle in thicker layers In middle age, the body fat of an average male typically doubles, from about 18 % to 36 %. The average woman’s body fat can jump from 33% to 44 percent.
- Weight Training can make your muscles bigger and stronger, when your muscles are stronger so are you. It is easier for you to accomplish daily tasks with power, efficiency and grace. Stronger muscles help support your joints, relieving some of the stress that can lead to arthritis. They improve your sense of balance and help protect your frame from the shock of a fall or sudden impact.
- Weight training can help improve your mind, your brain is not a muscle, but building more muscle can change how feel and think about yourself.
- Weight training can help you burn calories and lose weight. The more muscle you have the more calories you burn. Why – muscles are hungry for energy; they burn more calories than fat. This makes the muscles metabolically active, where they burn calories at rest. When you add more muscle to the body it’s like replacing a puny four cylinder engine with a mighty V8, the V8 guzzles lots of gas and delivers lots of power, vigorous exercise can rev your metabolism.
