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Do you lift weights?You definitely should! Yes, you, everyone should lift weights.Do you play sports? Are you a female? Are you over the age of 50? 60? 70? Have you been injured and/or have some obvious muscular imbalances?Then you should definitely do strength training!Strength training reduces the risk of injury when playing sports. If you are an ice hockey player, runner, climber, tennis player, soccer player or participate in any other sport specific activity, then strength training will help you keep clear of injuries.Sports require agility, endurance, mobility, and strength. To make our joints more resistant to the high demands that sports require from our body, we need to strength train.Strength training not only just makes us stronger and our bones and joints more resilient, strength training will correct muscular imbalances, which is bound to occur when playing sports. We favor one side over the other, then one side of our body is weaker while the other side that is always being used is stronger. Strength training will force you to use a variety of movement patterns, so again, will correct any posture issues and muscular imbalances that our sport places on our body. Sports are specific, so you won’t be moving through as many ranges of motion, so strength training will make you move through a wider variety of range of motion, therefore reducing imbalance issues, posture issues and overall being more resilient to injury.Are you concerned about your bone density? As we age our bone density naturally degrades as well as our muscle mass. As our bone density decreases, our chances of breaking a bone increases and of course, as we age, we have a more difficult time recovering from injuries.Actually, in the elderly population “broken bones among older people increase their risk of death for up to 10 years, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.”How do we slow the loss of bone density and maintain muscle mass? Well, you probably already know the answer, strength training! Our bones will only be as strong as the loads that we place them under. They respond to the stimulus that we force on them."Put simply, placing added weight on our bones — which happens when we lift weights regularly at the gym — will help them stay healthy and strong. When you practice a sedentary lifestyle (one that doesn’t include lifting any weights) the bone is not stimulated to remodel. The result? Bones become weaker. " -Orlando HealthBe strong, stay healthy, lift weights. If there is one thing that you need to remember, remember this, what Louie Simmons has to say: “Weak. Things. Break.”--Coach ErikaSourcesScience DailyOrlando Health
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