WHY WEIGHT TRAINING PROGRAMS DELIVER TOP HEALTH BENEFITS

By Vince Delmonte

Many people are interested in their appearance or aesthetics as a motivation for lifting weights. More importantly are the many health benefits of a proper weight training program.

Those who overlook the health benefits of weight training programs, are likely to turn to some other exercise method, which doesn't have the same benefit. While any exercise is better than none, many who might neglect weight training, experience decreased bone density, slowed metabolic rate, and stress.

INCREASED BONE DENSITY

A weight training program is great for one of the main problems of old age, osteoporosis. Lifting weights is effective for increasing bone density, and preventing fall related stress fractures. Thickening the femur will help carry the torso, and prevent hip and balance problems.

Although running will help increase bone density, because it is aerobic, rather than anabolic, you won't get much benefit. While running is important for the lungs, heart, and fat burning, it should be an adjunct to, and not a subsititue for, a weight training program. Weights can strengthen the knee, which running tends to wear out.

DECREASED FREQUENCY OF INURY 

A weight training program will strengthen the muscles, but also the ligaments and tendons that are connecting bones, muscles, and other tissues. This in turn lessens the chance of a sports related injury.

About 80% of injuries are a result of a tendon, ligament, or muscle weakness when force is applied. A weight training program is the best prevention out there.

REDUCED HEALTH RISKS

Numerous studies demonstrate a weight training program wil have a positive effect on health by reducing the rate of insulin resistance, blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

PREVENTION OF FAT GAIN

The more you weight lift, the higher your metabolic rate. The good news is you can eat more food, and maintain the same weight. Unfortunately, many people incorrectly assume that because they start a weight lifting program, it will make them big and bulky. This is definitely not true. Lets use an analogy.

WHO'S GOING TO BUILD THE BIGGER HOUSE?

Pretend we have two teams that have challenged each other to see who can build the biggest house. Team I gets 10,000 bricks and Team II gets 1,000 bricks. Who wins. why team I of course. If you substitue calories for bricks, it should be obvious it isn't just the weight training program body builders follow that make them huge, it's the amount and quality of the foods they consume. Think back to how much you could eat during puberty without getting fat. (Your body continues to grow to about age 27, and then it gradually breaks down over the course of one's life)

Whether it's increasing height during puberty, trying to pack on big muscles, calories must be supplied for the growth process to occur. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, or build a house out of nothing. You must have both nutritional quality and quantity to supply amino acids, carbohydrates, dietary fats, or no muscle growth!

So don't think because you make a habit of going to the gym, and engaging in a weight training program, that you are going to develop large and bulky muscles. If you don't control your diet, it isn't going to happen.

Likewise, you need a correct weight training program like Vince Delmote's 6-Pack Ab Quest Program/No Nonsense Musclebuilding. Vince give you step by step instructions on what are the best exercises and foods to build a lean shredded physique. Vince emphasizes quality over quantity. You want maximum result with minimum effort.