What The Right Excercises Will Do For You

What The Right Excercises Will Do For You
What The Right Excercises Will Do For You

If you knew that a certain type of exercise could benefit your heart, improve your balance, strengthen your bones, and help you lose weight all while making you look and feel better, wouldn’t you want to get started? Well, studies show that strength training can provide all those benefits and more.

What The Right Excercises Will Do For You
Bone health and healthy organs can be the result of proper training

Strength training — also known as weight or resistance training — is physical activity designed to improve muscular fitness by exercising a specific muscle or muscle group against external resistance, including free-weights, weight machines, or your own body weight, according to the American Heart Association.

What The Right Excercises Will Do For You
Strength training is vital

“The basic principle is to apply a load and overload the muscle so it needs to adapt and get stronger,” explains Neal Pire, CSCS, an exercise physiologist and the national director of wellness services at Castle Connolly Private Health Partners in New York City.

What The Right Excercises Will Do For You
Exercising takes many forms from walking to more daring activities

And what’s important for everyone to know is that strength training is not just about body builders lifting weights in a gym. Regular strength or resistance training also helps prevent the natural loss of lean muscle mass that comes with aging (the medical term for this loss is sarcopenia).

What The Right Excercises Will Do For You
You can win with the right combination of exercises

Strength training is an important part of your overall fitness and benefits people of all ages, particularly those with health issues such as obesity, arthritis, or a heart condition.

Article By: Everyday Health

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