TOP FIVE REASONS WHY WOMEN SHOULD START WEIGHT LIFTING
1. Build the body shape you want
As you build muscle, your body begins to take a nice hourglass shape. Though endurance exercise can help you lose weight, that weight comes in the form of both fat and muscle tissue. If you’re losing both fat and muscle, you can lose your curves otherwise known as ‘gains’ as well and we don’t want that! However, resistance training can help create and sustain them.
2. Quicker fat loss
It may come as a surprise to you that weight lifting can burn fat even more efficiently than hardcore cardio. Running for hours on end is very detrimental to the body as puts you under serious stress. Swap to an hour of weight lifting and you will get your heart rate up, tone your body and aid fat burning for up to two days after your workout without that added stress
3. Increases your energy levels
Even though most people assume exercise will make us more tired when we are already feeling fatigued, it is quite the contrary. Weight training can in fact cause an increase in your energy levels even hours after you finish training. Lifting weights can strengthen our circulation and our heart muscle which in return will help to improve our energy levels.
4. Promotes healthy bones
It’s not just aesthetically strength training can help. Weightlifting also promotes healthy bone density meaning you’re likely to suffer osteoporosis and bone fractures as we age and the protein addition helps keep skin, hair and nails radiant and stronger.
5. Acts as a stress release
Exercise altogether is a great way to manage stress. Researchers have consistently found that those who weight train regularly tend to manage stress better and experience fewer adverse reactions to stressful situations. It is important to get your magnesium intake in though – as you lose magnesium through sweat and can become depleted from lots of strength training or stressful situations in your life. So, add a supplement form into your diet mixed with regular weight training sessions and reap the benefits of controlling stress.
