Strength Training - The Power To Succeed
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You can improve your strength by increasing the weight and dropping the number of reps you do. Strength training has many other health benefits, including increases bone density, builds a stronger heart, reduces your resting blood pressure, improves blood flow, halts muscle loss and helps control blood sugar…
These fun facts show more benefits of strength training:
- 60% of people who weight train get an average of 7 hours or more of sleep per night.
- Add strength training to your cardio to speed up fat loss. Cardio alone can actually burn muscle tissue, and you need muscle tissue to burn fat even while you're resting.
- By adding only 2 weight training sessions a week can actually reduce body fat by 7%.
- Some of your busiest muscles are those controlling eye movements.
- People who cross-train with a variety of other exercises are more fit and less injury-prone than those who exercise using only one or two pieces of exercise equipment.
- By the time you reach 65 years old, inactive people will lose as much as 80% of their muscle mass. Weight training can help stop, prevent and reverse muscle loss. By the age of 80, inactive individuals will lose about 50% of their muscle mass.
- When you weight train, you boost your metabolism which means that you burn more calories when your body is resting.
- Weight training lowers your cholesterol and blood pressure.
- Muscles are divided into three types: smooth, cardiac, and skeletal.
- Your body contains more than 600 muscles, and 206 skeletal bones.
- The smallest muscles in the body are in your inner ear, but they work hard both in and out of the gym!
- How much an individual can lift is influenced by at least seven factors: strength-training program intensity, predominant muscle fibre type, hormonal levels, body proportions, tendon insertion points, muscle-tendon ratios and neurological efficiency.
- Two types of muscle soreness exist — acute and delayed.
- Recent research suggests that sound strength training can have a positive effect on cardiac rehab patients.