Lift Weights

It is my job, as a trainer, to encourage everyone to do all kinds of exercise.  But there is a very good reason that my work focuses on strength training:  it works.

Most of us work out for some combination of the following reasons:  to look good and to feel good.  Looking good, for many of us, implies losing some weight and/or shaping up the weight we have.  Feeling good may spring from looking good, or from doing something we couldn’t do before, or from taking pride in our new skills, among other things.

 

Strength training is the way to maximize looking good and feeling good.

 

When we do strength training, we increase our lean muscle mass.  That lean muscle mass burns more calories.  We increase our metabolism.  That, in turn, can lead to weight loss (no, we can’t out-exercise a terrible diet).  Even if we don’t lose weight, the weight we have will look better as we build muscle and we are likely to get smaller if not lighter.  In other words:  we can check off looking good.

 

As for the feeling good part, lifting heavy stuff releases the good brain chemicals.  When we lift weights, we get stronger both in body and in mind.  We take the sense of accomplishment we have in the gym out into our regular life.  Plus we can open our own jars and move our own couch.

 

Don’t know how to start?  Talk to me!