Beside building muscles and increasing strength, strength training has more benefits:
- Halts bone loss – and restores bone
Each year after menopause, a woman typically loses 1 percent of her bone mass – even more during the first five post menopausal years. Over time, she may develop osteoporosis, a condition in which bones become so porous they easily break. Strength training significantly enhances the bone density.
- Improves balance
Our ability to stay in balance declines with passing years. Those who regularly weight train perform significantly better at balancing tests than sedentary people and those active but without regular strength training.
- Helps prevent bone fractures from osteoporosis
The improvements in strength , bone density , and balance have special significance for women because they dramatically reduce the risk of fractures from osteoporosis.
- Energizes
The stronger you are, the easier is to move.
- Trims and tightens
People who weight train gain muscle mass and in the same time while loosing body fat they loose also inches.
- Helps control weight
Gaining muscle not only promotes aerobic activity, which burns calories, but also boosts metabolism. That’s because muscle is active tissue and consumes calories; stored fat, on the other hand, is inert and uses very little energy.
- Improves flexibility
When strength training exercises are performed with maximum range of motion, they improve flexibility of the muscles.
- Revitalizes
Strength training makes you feel great. It gives you a positive feeling about anything you want to do.