If you don’t work against resistance in your workouts, then there’s absolutely no way you are going to look and feel your best full stop.
It’s not only your muscle tone, it’s your bone density, it’s your metabolic rate (how fast your body burns calories), it’s your overall strength, it’s how you perform in daily life that will get better, it’s your steadiness on your feet (as old age approaches its usually your legs are first to go), it’s your ability to burn body fat, it’s your sporting performance (there’s no sport now that doesn’t use strength training) etc etc.
Bottom line is everything in your life will improve IF you do strength training on a regular basis, and you become skilled in very important movements for your body.
For all of those of you who visit a doctor on a regular basis, then strength training will only enhance your sense of wellbeing, and with proper care and attention, will significantly improve your overall health and the way you feel each and every day.
I’m not talking about lifting tons and tons of weight, you don’t need to do that.
What you do need to do though is having a plan to get progressively stronger, no matter what your age, the benefits are going to be that huge!
The days of men doing heavy weights and women doing light funny coloured weights should have disappeared many years ago.
Some of our best lifters now are women, and it’s no coincidence that they are having incredible results through their constant battle to get stronger. It’s not about working yourself until you’re blue in the face either, it’s about constant development of your programme.
It’s not only strength, it’s learning new exercises and developing new skills to allow your body to move in different ways.
These skills will translate to daily life too, what good is it to be strong and not be able to be strong in everyday movements too?
Allowing yourself to embrace strength as a valuable and key part of your programme is vital if you really want to fulfil your potential in all areas of your life.
