Benefits Of Weight Lifting

Weight lifting has many benefits that include better health and a better lifestyle. This class has helped improve my own form and learn to take my weight lifting experience to a new level. My focus in this paper is to let you know how a few of the key things that I learned in class can help you improve your own workout experience. The things I learned was the overall benefits to me, how weight lifting prevents injuries, the importance of heavy resistance to low resistance, and the role weight lifting plays in proper nutrition. All of these are important. The role they play with each other is even more important.
Benefits of weight lifting include increasing your physical work capacity; improving bone density; promotes fat free body mass; increases the strength of tendons, muscles, and connective tissue; and it improves the quality of life (Gustafson, paragraph 2). Increasing the physical work capacity helps you perform your activities that you do day to day. This gives you the ability to be able to work harder and longer. The improvement of bone density also helps with controlling bone loss. Our bones tend to get more brittle as we age. Weight lifting helps

with the bone loss and assists with controlling it. The benefit of a more fat free body helps decrease sarcopenia. As we age, we also lose the lean muscle mass that we try so hard to keep. Strength training keeps the muscle from turning into fat. By increasing the strength of tendons, muscles, and connective tissue we gain better motor performance. This leads to less chance of injury by improving the gained motor performance. One of the most important benefits of weight lifting is the quality of life benefit. I have gained more confidence by my strength training. This also has helped make me stronger. My weight is better maintained from the weight lifting helping manage my weight. These are a few of the benefits that have come from weight lifting. More benefits will arise as you keep on the journey of weight lifting.
Weight lifting prevents injuries.

Good technique includes making sure you start with proper training from a personal trainer or fitness specialist. One should start slowly. You should not rush into a program because injuries can occur. You should start with single sets. The next step is to work your way into being able to perform multiple sets (Gustafson. Paragraph 3). Make sure to use the correct weight amount. Your form will suffer and you might be injured if you use too much or too little weight. You will need to give muscles time to rest and recover. Forty eight hours is a good amount of time to rest before using that same muscle group again. Mix it up by switching up your routine. This keeps your body guessing. You can do this by using machines, free weights, bands, bars, and even your own body

weight.
Resistance is important. You would not just want to randomly grab weights off the rack. You need to understand how the weights affect the muscles differently. If you want to increase the size of your muscles, you would focus on a lower number of repetitions using a heavier weight. If your focus is improving the overall muscular fitness, then you will focus on a higher number of repetitions using a lighter weight. You must not do the same workout over and over and expect to see any changes in your body (Matthews, paragraph 4). Gradually increasing the stress on the body through resistance can help accomplish the challenge needed. You should also focus on different resistance levels and reps to keep your body guessing. If you get stuck, this is where a personal trainer can take it to the next level. The overall goal of pushing your body helps your body to reap the overall benefits of your personal fitness goals.