Why Weight Lifting Is An Exercise That Delivers Top Health Benefits

By Kent Fischer

While some individuals are interested in obtaining muscle for aesthetics, for most people, this isn’t an interest. You’re more interested in knowing what health benefits weight lifting will have for you…

For a complete study of the health benefits of weight lifting CLICK ON  No Nonsense Muscle building by Vince Delmonte.

Far too many people overlook the many health and fitness benefits weight training has to offer. This leads to problems later in life such as decreased bone density, a slowed metabolic rate, increased stress levels, and other negative consequences associated with constant stress. For a great guide to lifting weights check out No Nonsense Musclebuilding.

INCREASED BONE DENSITY

Weight lifting, being one of the best weight bearing exercises , 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 true. If the truth is told, running 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  better at preserving bone mass, with 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.  This reduces the chance they will become injured, when participating in other physical activities.

If you’ve ever been injured, you know 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 benefits 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, like No Nonsense Musclebuilding, 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.

Don’t get caught thinking that because you add weight lifting to your workouts, you’re going to develop large bulky muscles. If you control your diet, this will not happen.

Hopefully it is clear now that just because you’re weight lifting, it does not mean you will end up with bulky muscles. 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 benefits and fitness level is concerned. Don’t let the health benefits of exercise pass you by any longer.

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