Do you disregard weight lifting when it comes to choosing a healthy exercise to take up? Do you always think that weight lifting is just for those who are trying to build muscle and you really aren’t interested in bulking up? Well the truth is weight lifting is much more than just building muscle alone and it is in fact good for all folks. Weight lifting offers many health benefits that you perhaps are not aware of. Let me share with you the truth about weight lifting today.
There are 4 major health benefits that you stand to gain when you take up weight lifting. The first one is increased bone density. When it comes to this, many people think running is the best exercise for it. The fact is that this is not necessarily true. Why? Because running actually promotes muscle breakdown in your body while weight lifting being an anabolic process, helps to promote the building of tissue. Therefore weight lifting actually does a better job in preserving your bone mass whereby it has far less impact than going for an hour run, for example. To sum it up, weight lifting being one of the best weight bearing exercise that you can do, helps to increase your bone density and prevent osteoporosis and stress fractures in the future.
Secondly, weight lifting helps reduce the likelihood of you suffering from injuries. In other words, the frequency of injuries is decreased. How is this so? When you strength train, your muscles get stronger, so are the ligaments and tendons that connects the bones, muscles and other tissues because they get worked on as well. So these reduce the chances of them becoming injured when you are participating in other physical activities. I’m sure you know how frustrating it can be if you have ever been injured before. 80 of all injury cases is a direct result of a tendon, ligament or a muscle not being strong enough when a stressful force is applied. So weight training is easily the best injury prevention exercise here as it hit deep on all the tendons and ligaments.
Thirdly, you get to enjoy reduced health risks when you do weight lifting. Numerous studies has shown that regular weight lifting offers a positive effect on our health whereby reductions are seen in the body of our rate of insulin resistance, blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease and even cancer. A sensible weight lifting program coupled with a balanced diet will ensure that you are way ahead in keeping these chronic problems at bay.
Last but not least, do you know that weight lifting help massively in preventing fat gain. This is very important to all the weight loss enthusiasts out there including you, if you are one. Its’ simple. The more you weight lift, the higher your metabolism will be, thus the more food that you can eat while maintaining your weight. Isn’t this wonderful news to you? If it isn’t then I’m not sure what is.
Now, although you are aware of the health benefits that weight lifting presents, but you are concerned about becoming bulky and big as result am I right? Let me shed this myth for you once and for all. The truth is that no matter how much you weight lift, you are not going to bulk up unless you increase your food consumption. The key in getting bulked up and all muscular is not just about how you train but also about how much increase in food that you are consuming. The muscles need increased calories to grow, folks. So don’t get caught up worrying that just because you are now lifting weights, you are going to develop large muscles. This simply won’t happen if you control your diet.
I hope you are now clear of this ‘false belief’ and start embracing weight lifting as your choice exercise for maximum health benefits. Weight lifting is also very affordable. You can start simply with your own body weight and slowly move on to light dumbbells and weighted plates later. Don’t worry about having to sign up for costly gym membership and all those stuff. Its’ not really necessary. So there you go. Overlooking weight lifting as part of current workout plan is probably the biggest mistake you can make when your long term health and fitness level is concerned. Don’t let this exercise pass by you any longer :)
Author Resource:
Alex Marco is the publisher of Wellness Diary™, a free weekly newsletter full of useful tips and practical advice to help improve your health, including weight-lifting tips. Grab a free copy of your newsletter at http://www.HealthEqualsMoney.com today.
![[Valid RSS feed]](http://www.look4articles.com/images/icon_Rss.png "XML Feed For RSS"){kind=icon}
Category Rss Feed
Print This Article
Add To Favorites
![[Valid RSS feed]](http://www.look4articles.com/images/rss.jpg "XML Feed For RSS")