Cardiovascular exercises such as running, spin classes and aerobics, work on increasing your fitness levels, but it's not going to tone your body that way that you may want. Resistance exercises using weights, therabands and your own body weight is what is needed to tone your body, keeping you looking strong and lean. So it may be time to rethink your training program and begin to incorporate some resistance exercises - here's some motivating reasons why:
- Stronger bones - resistance training of any description places stress on the bones where the msucles are attached. This results in increased bone mineral deposits, strengthening the bone and making it less likely break or fracture.
- Increase metabolism and burn more fat - muscle is the most metabolically active tissue in the body, meaning that the more muscle you have the higher your metabolism and the more fat you will burn. Lighting weights will help to increase your muscle mass and reduce your fat mass.
- Improve posture - spending a lot of time at our desks working means that a lot of us can end up with bad posture. Resistance training of postural muscles such as the abdominals and back will strengthen and increase their ability to support you properly for longer.
For those of you who are reluctant to lift weights because you think that you are going to bulk up like Arnie, the good news is this isn't likely to happen as females are not designed to have huge muscle mass. For women who do want to bulk up, it requires extra hard work.
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