subject: Muscle Building Training – The Many Health Benefits [print this page] Muscle Building Training The Many Health Benefits
You have probably heard that you will lose muscle mass as you get older. Perhaps three pounds of muscle per decade! That is pretty scary. If you have a desk job, or health problems, and are not exercising regularly, this muscle loss can be even more drastic.
Yet, many health problems are related to lack of exercise. Exercising detoxifies the body, allowing it to do all the healthy cellular activity and proper restoration on a daily basis. Exercise enhances your quality of sleep, contributing to a less stressful life, and less weight gain. Ideally, you want to get the most out of your exercise time, learning correct weight training and ensuring that you are triggering your muscles to BUILD the muscle fibers, and not just tire them out.
Exercise also provides the following health benefits, to name a few:
sustain bone density
enhance thyroid health, essential to your immune system
increase circulation
decrease depression
increase your ability to recover from impacts and accidents
sustain mental alertness
I hope you have been as lucky as I have in knowing older people who were fit and spry. They are truly an inspiration. Ballet teachers, choreographers, trainers, people who are (or were) well into their eighties before they even thought about slowing down a little. Or haven't!
Muscle strength, good reflexes and mental alertness all lend to avoiding the most common accident an older person experiences a simple loss of balance and a fall. Exercise increases circulation to the brain, cleans out the lymph system and strengthens the heart.
Learning a program designed by a medical doctor with the intention of providing the maximum muscle exertion, and combining this with intervals of pushing your heart rate up, is something that will offer you the best use of your time and efforts. Getting a heart rate monitor and knowing exactly how much you are increasing your heart's strength from workout to workout can only inspire confidence in your state of health.
