Benefits of Weight Training

• Promotes Safe and Effective Weight Loss: Regularly performing a weight training routine increases your basal metabolic rate. As a result, your body will burn a higher number of calories per day, even while you sleep.
  The reason for this increase in basal metabolic rate is that muscle is denser by volume than fat, and requires additional calories to be burned for support.
• Reverses the Natural Decrease in Basal Metabolic Rate: An individual's basal metabolic rate typically begins to decrease once they reach the age of 30. Increasing your lean muscle mass through regularly performing a strength training routine can reverse the decrease in your Basal Metabolic Rate as more calories are required to be burned to support lean muscle tissue than fat tissue. For this reason, weight training is an excellent addition to anyone's weight loss program.
• Increases Daily Energy, Stamina and Endurance Levels: Regularly performing a weight training exercise routine forces the cardiovascular system to circulate more oxygen and blood throughout the body to support the physical exercises that are being performed. This will increase the efficiency of the cardiovascular system. As you strengthen your lean muscle tissue and cardiovascular system, you will increase your physical stamina and endurance.
• Reduces Food Cravings and Promotes Safe and Effective Weight Loss: Regularly performing a weight training routine can alter the levels of two hormones that influence appetite: ghrelin and peptide YY. Studies have shown that these two hormones can decrease appetite and food cravings for several hours after the exercise routine has been completed.
• Maintains and Improves Bone Density: Several medical studies have shown that placing the skeletal frame under stress derived from physical activity forces the body to reinforce the bones that are being utilized during the activity. For example, a recent study indicated that individuals that regularly performed a jogging or running routine maintained, and even increased, their bone density. In comparison, individuals that performed a walking routine did not show improvements in bone density. Since weight training exercises place stress on the bones, improvements in bone density can be achieved.
• Allows Daily Activities and Chores to be Performed More Easily: Weight training increases the body's ability to deliver oxygen and other nutrients to muscles. This makes the muscles much more efficient and raises their capacity to perform work. The end result is that an individual who regularly weight trains is much less likely to experience fatigue from daily activities. They simply exert a smaller percentage of their potential to perform the same amount of work.
• Strengthens Ligaments, Tendons and Muscle Tissue: By forcing your ligaments, tendons and muscles to perform exercises that place a resistive load on them, you will strengthen all soft tissue associated with the specific exercise being performed.
• Creates a Sculpted and Toned Physique: Adding lean muscle tissue while reducing excess body fat will create a denser, harder body. The end result is a toned and sculpted physique.
• Improves Self-Image and Confidence: Regularly performing a weight training exercise routine will decrease excess body fat, increase lean muscle mass, improve cardiovascular endurance and create a sense of accomplishment. The end result is that you feel more comfortable with the appearance of your body, which leads to improvements in confidence and self-image.
• Reduces the Risk of Several Injury Types: Weight training improves not only muscular strength, but structural strength as well. By conditioning and strengthening your structural frame, your body is better able to withstand several common injury types, including lower back injuries, sprains, strains and joint mobility injuries.
• Lowers the Resting Blood Pressure Level: Performing a weight training routine with regularity will improve the efficiency with which your entire cardiovascular system operates. Several medical studies have shown that individuals that regularly perform a strength training routine lower their resting blood pressure level. This is likely due to the fact that the individual is improving the efficiency of his or her cardiovascular system.