Benefits of Resistance Training Exercises

Why do resistance exercise? Resistance workouts are an important asset to being healthy and fit.

Here are a couple of reasons why resistance exercises are important:

1. It builds lean muscles.
2. Muscle fibers starts to decrease with age.
3. Build lean muscle mass and strength. R
4. Resistance exercise can slow down or maybe even reverse your aging process.
5. It has been shown that resistance exercises can also build bone.
6. It helps lower high blood pressure.
7. It can help raise your metabolism which is what controls your body weight.

Consider these benefits and use what can to benefit from a great exercise program that can make you not only feel good and feel great.


Advantages/Disadvantages of 
Lifting Free Weights

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Advantages: (Dumbbells and Barbells)

• The ability to have a wide variety of exercises to workout all muscle groups.
• The machine confines movement and weight, and free weight does not.
• Helps in the development of building coordination and control because it takes skill to control and balance the weights.
• During any exercises, you may be working out other muscle groups as well. You will not only be working out your primary muscle, but your secondary, or maybe a third muscle may be getting a workout.

Disadvantages: (Dumbbells and Barbells)

• There is a possibility of a chance of a serious injury or even death from dropping weights on yourself.
• It gets to be expensive buying dumbbells especially if your strong and require more weights.
• If your a beginner, free weights does require skills and knowledge.

Advantages/Disadvantages of
Machine Weights

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Advantages: (Machines)

• It's very simple and easy to use.
• Great to use for beginner's.
• Does not require much skill or coordination to use any machine weights.

Disadvantages: (Machines)

• It can be very costly and expensive to own machine equipments.
• You require a lot of space. Machine equipments does take up a lot of space.
• Using machines to do resistance exercise only workouts one muscle group at a time.
• Injury can also be a possibility during use.

Resistance Exercise Tips

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Resistance workouts helps improve your muscle tone and appearance, increases your energy levels, and maintains a healthy body weight.

Here are some tips to help guide you to a better lifestyle:

1. Allow about 30-90 minutes per training session and about 10-15 of warming up.
2. Perform strength training exercises a couple of times a week.
3. Use enough weights to perform 2-4 sets of 8-12 reps when doing any type of resistance exercises.
4. Between each sets rest for about 30-90 seconds at a time.
5. Be sure to workout every muscle group when exercising.
6. Workout the larger muscles first then the smaller muscles.
7. Change exercises and your intensity level over time.
8. Also try exercises with bands/tubes, calisthenics, and floor exercises using higher repetitions.

Implement these exercise tips to your daily workout routines to help you get a jumping start to a successful program.

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Resistance Training Safety

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• Warm-Up before you start training.
• Set your training goals accordingly and within your abilities when doing exercises.
• Always start your resistance workouts slow. Take your time and be patient.
• Keep a normal, but challenging pace when exercising.
• Increase your intensity or durations to see improvements.
• Make your changes slowly over a period of time.