Resistance Training

As promised….here we go! Yes! You MUST resistance train in some fashion to alter your overall body composition. Does this mean you must join a gym and be a gym rat 10 hours a week? Absolutely not! In fact, quite the opposite. Three times per week, no more than 30 minutes of time is all you need to get started. Now, in over 15 years, I have yet to find the persona that cannot find that amount of time every week!

Just think of how much time we waste every single day. Watching TV, surfing the web, talking on the phone, etc. 30 minutes, three days a week? You really can’t find that time to better your life? Priorities people! It is quite comical to me actually. I was just having a conversation with a friend of mine and the thought process they shared with me was something along the lines of “I just don’t think that you should worry too much about what you eat and exercise. I don’t think it makes that much of a difference at the end of the day!” You’re kidding me right? It makes all the difference, when the end of the day is, assuming you remove all of the chance occurrences! Folks, listen carefully, failure to exercise and eat healthier takes a toll on your body. It’s the ONLY body you will ever have! Sure, I could very well see my end of days due to an accident of some sort, but that is happenstance and not something I am going to even begin to plan around. But my health? For the most part, that is controllable. So, take control!

Add resistance training to your lifestyle starting today! Tomorrow at the latest. Please don’t start off with “I’ll start on Monday” or “after the weekend”. That ship has sailed ladies and gents. What a lame approach. The exact same approach you child your children for taking when it comes to their homework. Not acceptable for them, but acceptable for you? Wrong! Set and example!

Why is resistance training required? Simple, to build lean muscle. No ladies, I promise, you WILL NOT look like men! Muscle is required for many reasons but for our purposes, the most important is, muscle keeps your metabolism elevated, burning more calories all day and night! Muscle needs nutrients; therefore it takes more energy within the body to feed muscle than it does to feed fat. Build some lean muscle, decrease fat! It really is that simple.

In addition to the benefits associated with heightened metabolism and the effects on fat stores, it has been proven that the number of muscle fibers within our bodies decline with age. From the ages of 30 to age 70 we can lose more than 25% of the type 2 muscle fibers (our strength fibers) in our bodies. Resistance training can slow down or even reverse this process through the building of lean muscle and strength. Additionally, resistance training has also been linked to fighting osteoporosis, high blood pressure, walking speed in the elderly and a number of other benefits to everyday life.

Now, really, 30 minutes, three days a week? I’m quite sure, if you made the decision right now to do it, you could and would find the time. Please, please, please! Stop making excuses! You will be amazed at just how much better you look and feel each and every day! Do it right…..and you will do it for the rest of your life!

Next we talk about cardio training!

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