If you have only 30 to
40 minutes to a workout, then every second has to count. You can achieve faster
fat loss with resistance training than running. A University of Southern Maine
study found that a single set of weight training exercises torches as many
calories as running at a 6 minute mile pace for the same amount of time. So for
every second you spend lifting weights, your body is expending high amounts of
energy.
Tie in the metabolism
boost that resistance training provides, you create a much larger metabolic
impact that long-distance running does. The added benefit for resistance
training that running can't provide are the gains in strength and new lean
tissue. A University of North Dakota study also found an additional benefit of
resistance training--done correctly, through a proper range of motion,
resistance training can also improve flexibility as well or even better than
static stretching.
To further increase
these benefits, paying attention to your nutritional habits yields greater
rewards.
*thanks to Surrey school district PE helping teacher Glenn Young for this info.
The benefits of regular strength exercises to one's overall fitness and health is well known.
But strength does not have to be weightlifting!
Here is a link to a No Equipment Bootcamp Workout that you can try...give this circuit a try and write about it in your reflection journal. You can also research other resistance training routines and try one out for your next activity log.. http://exercise.about.com/library/blworkoutcenter2.htm
.... remembering that variety is a good thing!
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