1.) Body Composition

– Exercise in general burns fat, but lifting weights provides muscles with a stimulus to either grow when gaining weight, or maintain themselves and their strength when losing weight, leading to a better lean mass: fat ratio when paired with a complimentary, high protein diet.

2.) Burn More Calories

– Exercise in general burns calories, but the increased output and recovery processes of your muscles during and after working out leads to increases energy Expenditure up to 48 hours after exercise during the recovery process as protein synthesis is incurred to repair these muscles using the protein you have in your diet.

3.) Help with Cardiovascular Dispositions

– Weight Training is Speculated to help with heart problems of all kinds as much if not more so than endurance training and more low-intensity cardio

4.) Helps Regulate One’s Blood Sugar

– Weight Training helps with our insulin response and burns through blood glucose as the body now has a new outlet for itself to be used within with the level of stored energy the muscles use as Glycogen Stores (source of glucose stored in the muscles) become depleted.

5.) Joint Pain

– Weightlifting helps with joint pain through physically strengthening not only the muscles, but the joints and ligaments around them as they Progressively get used to baring more weight. Certain individuals within studies even reported a perceived a 35% reduction in joint pain after lifting for some time.

Summary:

Whether it’s for your heart health, blood sugar, or a great body for the summer, or making sure those joints don’t ache after a long day of work, weight lifting is likely the right activity to pick up: it has numerous benefits and even many at which were not touched upon in this brief, informative article. If there’s anything else you’d want answered: go ahead and ask it in the comments below. Have a good day or night all!!

-Bryan