How You Can Improve Your Life With Strength Training

While it may sound unrealistic, it’s true. Strength training can truly improve most, if not all aspects of your life.

Let me share with you exactly how.

Firstly, let’s unpack “strength training”.

Strength training — commonly referred to as weights training, resistance training, or hypertrophy training — encompasses any form of resistance to create mechanical tension through the muscle.

For most people, the goal of incorporating this area of training is to gain muscle and lose body fat, aka “tone up”. But unless genetics are on your side, the ability to pack on lean muscle mass is much harder than you think.

It takes years to build lean muscle mass naturally through appropriate nutrition intake and consistent resistance training (approx. 2-4 hours per week pumping iron).

Given the long term commitment to strength training for (little) immediate return, why has strength training become the “go-to” training method for millennials today?

The proof is in the pudding.

Harvard have examined people who performed resistance training more than two days a week saw a significant reduction in depressive symptoms and The Journal of Sport and Health Science showed workers who trained as little as one hour a week saw an increase in workplace productivity.

Strength training is proven to be a natural mood booster, especially for millennials hustling to improve their performance in their work and personal lives.

Better mood means you’ll have more space for creative thinking.

More focus means you’ll accomplish more in the day and when you feel accomplished, you feel happy.

The obvious physical benefits.

There’s no doubt you’re able to recognise when someone’s been lifting weights for a while. It’s obvious because they can do incredible things and they look pretty good while doing so.

They’re confidently able to lift and maneuver things around the house, carry all the grocery bags in one go, take on new challenges their mates set them up for, you name it.

The biggest physical benefit to strength training is that you can do more:

• You have more options in life.

• You can confidently accept challenges because you’re very aware of what you’re body is capable of.

• Not only this, the perks of building muscle means your body shape changes (for the better).

• You’ve got more shape, definition and you look great.

• You burn more calories at rest because muscle is an active tissue that has energy requirements.

• It needs fuel to maintain and grow.

Two hours a week of strength training, and you’re trending up.

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