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Strength Training Benefits
Whether you’re looking to sign up for a 5K or simply live a healthier life and engage in a wide range of activities with greater ease, strength training can help you achieve your goals.
Strength training focuses on building functional strength, which means strengthening your muscles, connective tissues and bones to handle a variety of moves, whether it’s lifting, pushing or pulling and training your central nervous system to recruit muscles effectively.
There’s no shortage of evidence to back up the health-related benefits of strength and resistance training. Listed here are some of the top benefits:
- Increases bone density
- Decreases risk of heart attack and stroke
- Lowers blood pressure
- Reduces body fat
- Increases your metabolism
- Improves performance of other activities including walking, running, golf, tennis, etc.
- Improves mental health and mood
If you are not sure where to start when going to the gym, contact one of our personal trainers here at The Grove and they can get you going in the right direction.
Jim Cotta: [email protected] / Kim Whittaker: [email protected]