Benefits Of Strength Training For Women

Once reserved for only competitive athletes and bodybuilders, strength training is an essential part of a woman's fitness program. There's no need to torture yourself with low calorie diets or spend hours on a treadmill trying to make noticeable changes in your physical appearance. Strength training can help women lose weight and achieve a lifetime of fitness and well-being as they age.

One way women try to lose weight is to burning off extra calories by spending an hour sweating on a treadmill. Another way, burn them off during the other 23 hours your not exercising by increasing your RMR or resting metabolic rate. RMR is the number of calories that you burn just maintaining your body vital functions in a resting state. This typically accounts for about 65 to 75 percent of your bodies total calorie expenditure.

So how does a women go about raising their RMR? When women strength training they increase the size of the muscle fibers throughout their body. That's how the body responds to the stress of weightlifting. By getting stronger. These enlarged muscle fibers consume more energy and increases your RMR. With strength training, women can increase their metabolic rate up to 15 percent.

Strength training also helps women to increase their bone density and reduce the risk of osteoporosis and bone fractures. By the age of 20, the average woman has acquired most of her skeletal mass. As a woman ages, their bone density decreases. By the time they reach menopause, most women have experienced a large decline in bone mass. Studies have shown that women that strength train two or three times a week, not only increase strength by building muscle fibers, but also increases bone density. Keeping them fit and healthy in later life.

Studies published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have also found that strength training exercise improves balance - reducing the chance of falls, improves how the body controls glucose levels - helping to manage diabetes, improves sleep, self-confidence and self-esteem. The benefits women receive from strength training will carry out their whole life cycle. Helping them to stay health and to live a fit and healthy life.

Matthew McBride is the founder of LoveMyGym, an online fitness and exercise resource to help you get the most out of gym membership.

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