Physical Health - Weight Training
The idea of someone doing weight training brings a vision of a muscle packed young man, shiny and sporty being glistened a by nubile females on the beach. Hardly useful for those of us not too happy about rolling up the trouser leg because of the varicose veins.
Weight training can hold back the years
Funnily enough it appears that weight training for more mature people like ourselves, is a really important area of exercise. We all quiver at the sound of osteoporosis and loss of bone mass. Nasty areas. Weight training apparently can help or delay the onset of this as well as other diseases.
Weight training is a common type of strength training for developing the strength and size of skeletal muscles. Hippocrates explained the idea behind weight training when he wrote ‘that which is used develops, and that which is not used wastes away’.
It is claimed that regular weight training exercise, about twice a week using equipment and machines, can stop bone loss, stops (or offsets) muscle loss and generally tones all the physical bits you have got left so your life can become less painful and much more fun. Again as with the aerobic exercise the more you do the stronger you will become and the better you will feel. A little more of the clock turning back.
Weight training uses equipment such as dumbbells, barbells and kettlebells and well as a large selection of weight machines. Thoroughly frightening to the uninitiated. What on earth do I do with them and where do I find them? As many of us, particularly the ladies, might never have seriously tried this particular area of exercise there is a strong case for going to the local gym and get to know the trainers there. Using the equipment properly and carefully can make the difference between good exercise and just hurting yourself.
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