Recent medical studies show that muscle strength is critical to health and well-being. There is both, good news and bad news, about muscle mass and strength. The bad news is you can lose it – from inactivity or partly from normal aging. The good news is that muscle mass and strength needn’t be lost through lack of use or aging. It can be maintained or increased, no matter what age you are.
Strength training (building muscle mass and strength) helps you improve your physical appearance and posture, increase your metabolic rate to help burn fat, and boost your self-confidence. Strength training can also be effective in fighting osteoporosis. It can increase bone strength and act to prevent or even reverse osteoporosis. When you count up all these benefits and more, it is easy to see why strength training is such an important component of any fitness routine!
While you can use free weights at home or go to the gym to work out with machines, you can also perform strength training exercises with non-latex resistance bands, as well as your own body weight, to build strength by using resistance. In other words you don’t need expensive equipment or to be a member of a health-club to use strength training! Strength training is a form of resistance exercise. Your muscles don’t know any differently. As long as you are getting sufficient resistance to properly stress the muscles into growth, that’s all that matters.
The resistance band exercises being demonstrated on this site are suitable for all fitness levels and are safe, effective and easy-to-follow. A description and video is available for each exercise show how to use non-latex resistance bands and your body weight to reap the health benefits of strength training. And since non-latex resistance bands are light and easy to carry, you can take them along anywhere!
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