It’s never too late to start a new fitness routine. Whether you’ve exercised all your life or you’re just getting started, strength training is one of the best ways to continue to live your best life both physically and mentally. Building strength in the gym helps you maintain the lifestyle you want outside of it. Here’s a few examples that strength training enhances our quality of life: increase in muscle mass, stronger bones and joints, flexibility, a healthy weight and balance.
Why You Should Train for Life
Our facility, Train for Life, was founded on this exact principle. The ability to move well and be strong are vital to living a healthy and happy life and everyone, regardless of age, gender or ethnicity should make exercise a priority. The time you spend in the gym can greatly impact your physical, mental and emotional well-being. As we age our need for exercise and strength training greatly increases in order to continue to stay active and be independent. Many of us take our ability to do simple things like playing with our children and grandchildren, walking a flight of stairs, or even getting up from a chair for granted until we reach the point where we are no longer able to do them.
“Remarkably, physical activity and exercise are well-established countermeasures against muscle aging, and have been shown to attenuate age-related decreases in muscle mass, strength, and regenerative capacity, and slow or prevent impairments in muscle metabolism. We posit that exercise and physical activity can influence many of the changes in muscle during aging, and thus should be emphasized as part of a lifestyle essential to healthy aging,” according to an article in Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine.
Now that you know WHY you should be strength training, let’s talk about what and how much you need in order to make a difference.
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