Why Women Should Lift Weights?

Are you unsure on how to get results from all your hard work in the gym? Do you spend endless hours on the cardio machines wondering why your body never changes shape? Well it could be you not lifting enough weights!

This blog will give you the reasons why lifting weights is more effective for getting the body shape you desire.

You will Burn More Fat

Forget that "fat-burning" zone on the treadmill. According to a new study published in Obesity, strength training is better at helping people lose belly fat compared with cardio. While aerobic exercise burns both fat and muscle, weight lifting burns almost exclusively fat.

You'll Burn More Calories

Just sitting on your butt reading this, you're burning calories—if you lift weights, that is. Your muscle mass largely determines your resting metabolic rate—how many calories you burn by just living and breathing. "The more muscle you have, the more energy your body expends".

You'll Be Stronger Mentally

Strength has a funny way of helping all areas of your life, in the gym and out. By constantly challenging yourself to do things you never thought possible, your confidence grows. "Weight lifting empowers you"

You'll Boost Your Flexibility

Research in america has been done into static stretches against strength-training exercises and found that full-range resistance training workouts can improve flexibility just as well as your typical static stretching regimen. The key word here is "full-range". If you can't complete the full motion—going all the way up and all the way down—with a given weight, you may need to use a lighter dumbbell and work up to it.

You'll Strengthen Your Bones

Weight lifting doesn't only train your muscles; it trains your bones. When you perform a curl, for example, your muscles tug on your arm's bones. The cells within those bones react by creating new bone cells. Your bones become stronger and more dense.

You'll Drop a Size

Strength training has a reputation of making women "bulk up." But it's not true. The more your weight comes from muscle, rather than fat, the smaller you'll be. "In fact, body weight often goes up with strength training, but dress size goes down one or two sizes". Plus, it's really, really difficult to get body-builder huge. "Women produce about 5 to 10 percent the amount of testosterone men do, limiting our muscle-building potential when compared to men". To seriously gain size, you'd pretty much need to live in the weight room.

You'll Ease Joint Pain

Go ahead, squat low. Your knees will thank you. "Proper strength training is the solution to joint issues". "Stronger muscles better hold your joints in position, so you won't need to worry about your knee flaring up during your next run

You'll Be a Better Runner

Stronger muscles mean better performance—period. Your core will be better able to support your body's weight and maintain ideal form during other exercises (like running), plus your arms and legs will be more powerful. What's more, since strength training increases the number and size of calorie-torching muscle fibers fueling your performance, strength training could actually help you burn more calories during your cardio workouts.

You'll Have a Healthier Heart

Cardiovascular exercise isn't the only exercise that's, well, cardiovascular. In fact, strength training can up your heart health, too. In a study looking onto blood pressure, people who performed 45 minutes of moderate-intensity resistance exercise lowered their blood pressure by 20 percent. That's as good as—if not better than—the benefits associated with most blood pressure pills.

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