The Benefits of Weight Training

Date posted 03 Oct 2022
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There are benefits of strength training that can help improve your health. Strength training such as lifting weights or using resistance bands, build your muscle mass. Aerobic exercises such as running, cycling or swimming, is designed to strengthen your heart. Both are beneficial for our health, just in different ways.

These are the top benefits of weight training:

  • Your bones get stronger

Osteoporosis occurs when bones soften as you age, therefore strength training can help prevent or reduce the disease from getting worse. The hips, spine and wrists seem to benefit the most from strength training, as some experts say. Mainly the trunk or also known as core as it helps stabilise our bodies as well as all our other bones within the body, by strengthening the muscles around these bones we reduce our risk of injury in the future.

  • Weight loss

Lifting weights can aid with weight loss. By lifting weights and performing different kinds of strength training exercises it can help you lose body fat and burn more calories. Healthy muscle mass can also help prevent injuries that can occur while doing aerobic exercises such as walking or running.

  • Reduced risk of heart attack

Exercises that involve lifting weights help keep our heart healthy. One study says that weight training for an hour a week can reduce your risk of having a heart attack or stroke by up to 70% according to accredited researchers and scientists.

  • Reduced risk of diabetes

Strength training can help those that suffer from diabetes (especially type 2, which is associated to blood glucose levels being out of balance) as it helps our body to process glucose better.

  • Muscles become stronger and firmer

Strength training puts your muscles to work. If you have back pain for example, you can try working specific areas such as the lower back and abdominal area to help strengthen yourself and have better balance. A key to a strong body is a strong core. A lot of us neglect to train core as most tend to go for the muscles that you can see in the mirror and forget about the functionality that training brings to our lives. The more symmetrical musculature we have the better posture, and, when we get older, our bodies will be able to stay stronger and still perform as they did few years prior.