Are You Using Your Muscles Enough to Keep Them (Part 2) ? :
If you haven't heard about strength training exercise, it is the process
or exercising the muscular system with weighted resistance to
strengthen, condition and to keep it strong and healthy. As we no longer
get enough of the natural activity in our modern sedentary and largely
inactive world we can only stay well and healthy when we take the time
to put intentional exercise back into our busy lives.
Strength
training helps develop a leaner, stronger body boosting the metabolism
(the body's engine) increasing available energy, endurance and stamina.
Mental and emotional health is improved as well by increasing
self-esteem, confidence and self worth. These improvements have a great
influence on our metabolic efficiency (the way our body uses food to
create energy) physical appearance and performance and reduce risk of
injury and illness.
Nothing can match strength training exercise
for producing these benefits. Low intensity recreational activities like
walking, jogging or cycling work the muscles only in limited ranges of
movement and cannot strengthen the muscular system and combat declines
in strength, bone density and muscle mass that accompany disuse.
If
you don't look after your muscles through the years you will lose up to
50 percent of them when you reach you senior years. This will leave you
in a poor condition for the rigors of aging. Get yourself started on
your proper strength training program and keep yourself strong so you
will never need someone to help you get up from a chair or dress or feed
you. It is in each of our hands so don't delay.
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