The Top 20 Benefits of Weight Training
- Tones and shapes muscles, which looks great and raises your basal metabolism. This means you burn calories 24 - 7 - even while sleeping.
- Reverses the natural decline in your metabolism which begins around age 30. Without weight training your body has lost the ability to burn about 100 calories a day and increases by approximately 100 calories a decade. By age 50 your body has lost the ability to naturally burn off about 300 calories a day.
- Weight training has a positive effect on all of your 650 plus muscles. Each pound of muscle gained burns 35 -50 more calories daily. If you gain 3 lbs of muscles and burn approx. 40 calories per pound you'll burn 120 calories more each day or 3,600 calories more a month that equals a loss of 10 - 12 lbs in one year.
- Strengthens your bones and reduces and reverses the risk of developing osteoporosis. After age 35 most women lose 1% of bone mass each year. Never too old to start.
- Weight training improves your muscular endurance.
- Weight training will NOT develop big muscles on women!
- Weight training makes you strong. Strength gives you confidence and makes daily activities easier. Studies show even 90 year olds benefit from lifting weights.
- Weight training makes you less prone to low back injuries.
- Weight training decreases your resting blood pressure.
- Weight training decreases your risk of developing onset diabetes.
- Weight training decreases your gastrointestinal transit time, reducing your risk for developing colon cancer.
- Weight training increases your blood level of HDL cholesterol (the good type).
- Weight training improves posture. You won't become hunched over as you age and will keep your height.
- Weight training improves the functioning of your immune system.
- Weight training lowers your resting heart rate, a sign of a more efficient heart.
- Weight training improves balance and coordination.
- Weight training elevates your mood.
- Weight training slows the aging process.

- Weight training energizes you.
- There is one more reason to start a weight training routine with a qualified personal trainer: it's YOUR reason and only you know what it is.
