Top 18 Benefits of Weight Training
- Weight training tones your muscles which looks great and raises your
basal metabolism… which causes you to burn more calories 24
hours-a-day. You’ll even burn more calories while you’re sleeping.
- Weight training can *reverse* the natural decline in your metabolism which begins around age 30.
- Weight training energizes you..
- Weight training has a positive affect on almost all of your 650+ muscles.
- Weight training strengthens your bones reducing your risk of developing osteoporosis.
- Weight training improves your muscular endurance.
- Weight training will NOT develop big muscles on women….just toned muscles!
- Weight training makes you strong. Strength gives you confidence and makes daily activities easier.
- Weight training makes you less prone to low-back injuries.
- Weight training decreases your resting blood pressure.
- Weight training decreases your risk of developing adult onset diabetes.
- Weight training decreases your gastrointestinal transit time, reducing your risk for developing colon cancer.
- Weight training increases your blood level of HDL cholesterol (the good type).
- Weight training improves your posture.
- Weight training improves the functioning of your immune system.
- Weight training lowers your resting heart rate, a sign of a more efficient heart.
- Weight training improves your balance and coordination.
- Weight training elevates your mood.
Author and exercise Physiologist, Greg Landry, offers free weight
loss success stories and articles, and unique weight loss programs at
his site.. www.landry.com