3 Reasons For Women To Train With Weights

Many people today are aware of the need to both eat a healthy diet and exercise in order to stay in shape. Both men and women frequent the gym often.
Woman who work out regularly and eat well cant help but feel the benifites of this routine - sleeping better, feeling more energized and well than ever before.
A lot of women will leave good enough alone with aerobic training and shrink from weight training because of the misconceived notion that they will look like Schwarzenegger within 2 days.

This is to bad because the many benefits of working with weights that are totally lost to them.

Here is a short list that might just get your apitite up (for weights of course, not food..)

1.  Weight training builds muscles that help boost your metabolism - the faster your metabolism - the faster the calories are burned. An exercise routine with just cardio and airobic workouts will burn fat as well as muscle, thus slowing your metabolisim instead of quickening it. The perfect workout will combine the two.
2. Weight training makes for stronger bones and Muscles, and prevents the onset of osteoppoorosis and authritis, common in women that are menopausal.
   because your muscles are toned from the weights, your body will also look much better.
3. When weight training, you can also target specific parts of your body like your abdomine or thighs and give them special attention. This is obviously not possible with just a cardio workout

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