Sunday, October 14, 2012

Many Of The Advantages Of Weight Lifting

By John Oxnard


I'm sure everyone knows that weight lifting is the best kind of exercise to improve muscle. However, not everyone is aware that weight lifting has many other health benefits that aren't so obvious.

Weight Lifting Promotes Good Posture

Like many kinds of exercise, weight lifting boosts your metabolism. This causes the body to use-up more calories at rest. So you aren't working out you are using calories. Achieving a high-speed metabolism helps to prevent you from attaining excess weight. Your overall weight might not change just by increasing your metabolism, nevertheless you will lose fat and gain muscle because of weight lifting.

Weight Lifting Improves Good Posture

The first benefit of weight lifting is improved posture. The way you sit and stand are determined with your neck, shoulder, back, hip and abdominal muscles. More solid muscles help promote better posture by supporting you stand and sit straighter. Additionally you will have better balance and stability.

Here is yet another way weight lifting helps you handle stress. We all have those days where it seems that everything is going wrong and one terrible thing after the other keeps showing up. For me, on those days i'm ready to punch a freaking wall! However, that wouldn't be very productive and I would possibly break my hand. Instead of punching a wall, I lift weights. It's a wonderful way to take away all the stress that has built up in the day.

Weight Lifting Assists the Musculoskeletal System

Tests have proved that weight lifting, has large effects on the musculoskeletal system. It can help maintain functional capabilities, and helps prevent osteoporosis, sarcopenia, lower-back pain, and other disabilities.

Weight Lifting Supports Good Posture

Another benefit of weight lifting is that it helps condition the muscles. It makes the muscles, connective tissues and tendons stronger. This improves the overall stability and strength of the body. Also, conditioning the muscles is wonderful for the bones because bones grow much stronger and denser with stresses put on the muscles around them.

Weight Lifting Raises Stability

Another benefit of weight lifting is that it will help work out the muscles. It makes the muscles, connective tissues and tendons much stronger. This boosts the overall stability and strength of the body. Also, working out the muscles is good for the bones because bones grow stronger and denser with stresses put on the muscles around them.

Not only will you look really good if you lift weights on a regular basis but you will have many other benefits weight lifting has to offer. Just don t give up and over time you will begin to see some positive changes.




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