You know that exercise is essential to living a healthy life. If you exercise regularly, have you been incorporating strength training into your routine?

If not, this addition could improve your health dramatically. Your physical fitness journey would not be complete without movements that use your body weight or equipment. Some examples of strength training are weight lifting, squats, hip thrusts, carrying groceries, wall push-ups, and using a resistance band.

If you need some convincing to get started, here are the health benefits of strength training:

Helps You Become Stronger and More Flexible

As you age, you lose muscle mass naturally, which is why senior-aged people who don’t exercise tend to feel weaker compared to when they were younger. Strength training will make you stronger. It strengthens your muscles and bones, allowing you to do your daily activities more easily. Continue reading →

Your muscles need strength and endurance to support your movement and daily activities. You need both muscle strength and muscle endurance in your exercise routines and physical activities performed throughout the day. They are equally important and have several overlaps, although they have differences too.

Here’s an example of strength and endurance combined. Think of what you can lift at home. You can probably lift a pound of potatoes without any effort, and lift them quite a few times repetitively.

Only after many lifts will your muscles begin to tire. However, you may not be able to lift your bedside table at all, and if you can, you may only be able to lift it a couple of times without your muscles feeling fatigued. Let’s take a look more closely. Continue reading →