While some individuals are
strictly interested in obtaining muscle for aesthetics, for most people, this
isn’t an interest. Instead, you’re more interested in knowing what health
benefits weight lifting will have for you…
Far too many people overlook
the many health and fitness benefits that weight training has to offer, and
because of this, experience problems down the road with their body such as
decreased bone density, a slowed metabolic rate, increased stress levels and
other negative consequences that are associated with constant stress.
Increased Bone Density
Weight lifting, being one of
the best weight bearing exercises you can do, will increase your bone density
and help ward off osteoporosis or stress fractures in the future.
Many people think running is
the best exercise for increasing bone density, but this isn’t necessarily true.
If the truth is told, running actually promotes muscle breakdown in the body,
while weight lifting, being an anabolic process, helps to promote the building
of tissues.
Therefore, weight lifting is
going to be much better at preserving your bone mass, not to mention it’s far
less impact than going for an hour run.
Decreased Frequency of Injuries
When you strength train, not
only are your muscles going to get stronger, but you’ll also work the ligaments
and tendons that are connecting bones, muscles, and other tissues, thus
reducing the chance they become injured when participating in other physical
activities.
If you’ve ever been injured,
you know just how frustrating this can be. In about 80% of all injury cases,
the injury is a direct result of a tendon, ligament, or muscle not being strong
enough when a stressful force is applied.
Since weight training will
really hit all those deep tendons and ligaments, it’s the best injury
prevention out there.
Reduction of Health Related
Risks
Numerous studies have
demonstrated that regular weight training can have a positive effect on health
by showing reductions in the rate of insulin resistance, blood pressure,
diabetes, heart disease, and even cancer.
If you couple a solid weight
training program then with a well-thought out diet, you’ll be putting your best
foot forward at warding off these chronic problems
Prevention of Fat Gain
The more you weight lift, the
higher your metabolism will be, thus the more food you can eat while
maintaining your weight. If that isn’t good news for your future and the fight
against body fat, I’m not sure what is.
Now, with all of this said,
one big problem many people run into is the thinking pattern that using a
muscle building program will make you big and bulky.
This is most certainly not the
case.
Let’s look at an analogy to
gain an understanding of this.
Pretend you have two teams and
each are going to try and build a house using the exact same building technique.
One team is given 10,000
bricks to construct this house, and the second team is given only 1,000 bricks.
Who’s going to build the
bigger house?
The choice should be obvious –
team one since they have more bricks to build it with.
Now, think of those bricks as
being the calories you put into your body. Unless you’re supplying enough
calories, you aren’t going to build really big muscles. This is precisely what
makes bodybuilders look like bodybuilders.
It’s not just about the way
they train, but more about the way they eat (if you’ve ever had a teenage son
in the growing process in your house, you likely know just how much food must
be consumed when growing at rapid rates).
Whether it’s growing in height
during puberty or trying to build bigger muscles later on, calories must be
supplied for this growth process to take place.
You can’t build a house out of
nothing. Likewise, you can workout all you want, but if those building blocks –
in the form of amino acids, carbohydrates, and dietary fats are not there, you
aren’t going to see too much muscle growth.
So, don’t get caught thinking
that just because you add weight lifting to your workouts, you’re going to
develop large bulky muscles. If you control your diet, this simply will not
happen.
So, hopefully it is clear now
that just because you’re weight lifting, it does not mean you will end up with
bulky muscles as a result. Many people make this incorrect assumption – but it
really is the diet that makes all the difference in how this weight lifting
will shape your body.
When you make the decision to
work with me using my 6-Pack Ab Quest program, I’ll take you through the weight
lifting and ab techniques that will provide maximum results with minimal effort
on your part (why spend more time in the gym than you have to?), as well as
provide you with meal plans that are custom designed to ensure you get the best
results from your training without the muscle bulk – in fact, the plans are
formulated to help you shed the fat so you look leaner and more defined.
Not choosing to include weight
training as part of your current workout program is without-a-doubt the biggest
mistake you could make as far as your long-term health and fitness level is
concerned. Don’t let this exercise pass you by any longer.
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