Group Fitness Friday- Nothing will work unless you do.—Maya Angelou Ladies! Theyre so many reasons for us to lift weights! See below! 1-As women age, they naturally lose muscle mass. This causes your metabolism to slow. “When you do weight-bearing exercises you start revving up your metabolism—and it keeps burning for many hours after your workout,” - Wayne Westcott, PhD, director of fitness research at Quincy College. 2-While cardio is important and will help melt fat, weights sculpt your body. 3-Curbing age-related muscles loss isn’t just good for your looks; it can protect your heart and help ward off type 2 diabetes, too. Muscle helps remove glucose and triglycerides from the bloodstream, which reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes, as well as hardening of the arteries, says Timothy Church, MD, PhD. 4-Strength training lowers blood pressure for 10 to 12 hours after each session, which gives your heart a break, says William Haskell, PhD, professor emeritus of medicine at Stanford University. How strength training does this is not completely understood, but it probably has subtle effects on everything from hormones to nervous system regulation. 5-Plyometric strength moves (think squat jumps and burpees) and kettlebell workouts skyrocket your heart rate, which boosts the calorie burn of regular strength training routines. 6-“Lifting weights can help counteract age-related bone loss,” says Ethel Siris, MD, director of the Toni Stabile Center for Osteoporosis at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. “Strengthening your muscles also improves balance and keeps you as strong as possible which lowers your chances of a fall-related fracture.
Posted on: Fri, 30 May 2014 12:28:52 +0000
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