Terre Pruitt's Blog

Resistance Training has many benefits.  I say resistance training because the resistance may be any force the body has to overcome.  It does not have to be weights, it can be bands, springs, or even your own body weight.  In addition to doing something that you like you want to train according to your goals.

Some of the benefits of resistance training:

• Increase in strength, power, and endurance in the muscles
• Increase in size of the muscle
• Increase in lean mass (or maintained lean mass)
• Increase in the tone of the muscles
• Increase in metabolism
• Increase in bone density
• Increase in energy
• Improvement in the body’s muscle to fat ratio
• Improvement in mood
• Improvement in Insulin Sensitivity

and

• can assist in lower your resting blood pressure
• can assist in preventing sarcopenia
• can assist in lowering your resting heart rate

I met up with a friend today in San Jose at the gym we had a nice workout.  We played with some of the equipment and managed to get a great set of exercises in.  It is nice to be reminded of why resistance training is important.