Benefits Of Muscle Building Workout

Muscle building has many health benefits. Physicians, fitness experts and health trainers all acknowledge the numerous health benefits of muscle building workouts. If you want to know why you should be building muscles, here are the major reasons why;

1. Helps in sustaining weight loss: muscle tissue is inherently active. When you build muscle. Your body's proportion of fat decreases. Muscle tissues also raise the body's resting rate of metabolism. Thus, energy is constantly generated and consumed; there never is the old storage of fat trouble. For this very reason you will see a lot of healthy weight loss programs advise that you weight lift a little after you've reached your desired weight, to help sustain your weight loss.

2. Fighting Heart Diseases: muscle building helps you to fight heart diseases. It delays and lowers the risk of a heart attack.

3. Strengthens Bones: muscle building subjects the bones to greater stress. Study has shown that when bones which undergo greater amounts of stress develop greater mineral content and are stronger. Muscle building also increases bone density, for women this is especially important as it helps them better cope with age-related loss of skeletal strength.

4. Avoid muscle pain: muscle building helps you avoid muscle stiffness and muscle pain. Done rightly, weight training keeps your muscles constantly active and they never want for something to do. It also improves your posture and form. So basically you live free of muscle spasms unless you do something ridiculous with your workout.

5. Stronger Muscles and Tendons: weight training improves the strength of tendons and ligaments. In turn, there is improvement in the joints' stability. Not only this, weight training also stimulates the production of collagen in the tendons and ligaments which increases their structural strength.

6. Increased Stamina: muscle building increases the body's stamina. You have more energy to perform your daily tasks and fight fatigue. Your exercise capacity also increases and you're able to do more activities in a day then you would if you hadn't weight trained. You'd be surprised at both the energy boost that you feel.

7. Better Self-Image: acquiring a muscular physique gives you more self confidence and a better, healthier self-image. The increased stamina gives you psychological satisfaction and you become a better decision maker.

8. Reduce chances of injury: muscle building reduces the chances that you may suffer from injury. It develops the muscles' strength and tolerance, so you don't get injured easily. In the event you do sustain injury, the immune system is so active that heal at a very fast pace.

9. Post-Muscle Building Benefits: even you don't build muscle indefinitely, and stop after a while, you will always benefit from it. Studies have shown that muscle that has been worked on, never goes back to its pre-training condition and always remains substantially stronger than untrained muscle.

10. Improved Balance and Mobility: muscle building, especially training with free weights, improves your body's balance and gives your muscles greater flexibility. You move with greater ease and grace. You develop a naturally healthy posture.

11. Fighting sarcopenia: sarcopenia is the age-related loss of muscle tissue. When you build muscle mass in your earlier years, you have a lower risk of sarcopenia, and are better equipped to fight it.

• Felicia Byrnes
• 12/04/2009, 2:59 PM
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