Benefits of strength training

Benefits of strength training

For a long time, aerobic exercise has been promoted as the ideal way to maintain physical fitness and health, however, we currently recognize the importance of combining this type of activity with strength training due to its great contributions to the other activities, health and quality of life.
Strength training and exercises that allow you to tone or develop muscle mass, offer us many advantages, but then we will state the most outstanding ones so that we can understand the essence of their inclusion together with aerobic exercises.

• By developing the muscles and their strength, the internal organs are maintained in their correct positions and their functioning is optimized, improving digestion, intestinal transit, respiration and cardiovascular health.
• Improves posture, because the muscles involved in maintaining the upright position are well toned.
• Increases the expenditure of calories, increasing muscle mass increases the basal metabolism and the body burns more calories, even when at rest.
• Prevents injuries, since strong and developed muscles not only protect the joints, but execute better every movement avoiding discomfort due to bad postures, and resist intense work to a greater extent, which reduces the danger of certain overloads.
• Improves physical appearance, because it not only favors the correct body posture but also tones avoiding flaccidity and better locates each one of the muscles, which, being firm, maintain their proper position.
• It cushions the changes of aging where, typically, lean mass is lost and along with this, the functionality of the individual is degraded as body fat increases. For that same reason, it reduces the chances of gaining weight over the years.
• It promotes sports performance. It has been shown in studies in this regard that strength training optimizes the performance of endurance athletes by improving the mechanics of the movements and by increasing the force that is applied in each takeoff of the floor.

It is always necessary to remember that a good training allows us to include all the aspects that the body needs to live with health, so, let's not forget that beyond aerobic activities, we need strength training and flexibility to obtain better results with the union of these.