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Here at The Health & Wellness Post, I’ve decided to take a little turn and put the main focus of this blog into what I know to work best for wellness and weight loss for women … strength training … by combining weights with cardio. I realize that for many readers their first thought is, “women don’t lift weights.” But that thinking would be wrong. They do, and they do for good reasons including … greatly increased physical strength, improved performance in sports, reduced injuries, body toning and pretty definition, six-pack abs, weight loss, anti-aging, higher self esteem, flexibility, balance, increased muscle mass, and for the overall power they gain which helps them tackle everyday obstacles. Read my previous post on the subject. Or read about the American Heart Association’s report claiming that, “ Women who lift weights twice a week can prevent or at least slow the ‘middle-aged spread’.” Weightlifting is no longer a man’s sport. In fact, over four million women are now using weight machines. Even at the Olympics weightlifting women were allowed to compete for the first time in Sydney, Australia, in 2000 and did so again at the recent Olympics in China (as did this wife of a state representative). While in the past it was rare to see women in the weight room, now it is very common to see just as many women (and sometimes more) lifting weights as do men. And take it from a woman (me!) who went from 28% body fat to 17% at the age of 43 using weight lifting combined with cardio-kickboxing and good nutrition, strength training works! And I am now going to blog about it, sharing with my readers how they too can have a more toned and healthier body as well as slow down that aging process. Let’s get it started!
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Photo by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com
Here at The Health & Wellness Post, I’ve decided to take a little turn and put the main focus of this blog into what I know to work best for wellness and weight loss for women … strength training … by combining weights with cardio. I realize that for many readers their first thought is, “women don’t lift weights.” But that thinking would be wrong. They do, and they do for good reasons including … greatly increased physical strength, improved performance in sports, reduced injuries, body toning and pretty definition, six-pack abs, weight loss, anti-aging, higher self esteem, flexibility, balance, increased muscle mass, and for the overall power they gain which helps them tackle everyday obstacles. Read my previous post on the subject. Or read about the American Heart Association’s report claiming that, “ Women who lift weights twice a week can prevent or at least slow the ‘middle-aged spread’.” Weightlifting is no longer a man’s sport. In fact, over four million women are now using weight machines. Even at the Olympics weightlifting women were allowed to compete for the first time in Sydney, Australia, in 2000 and did so again at the recent Olympics in China (as did this wife of a state representative). While in the past it was rare to see women in the weight room, now it is very common to see just as many women (and sometimes more) lifting weights as do men. And take it from a woman (me!) who went from 28% body fat to 17% at the age of 43 using weight lifting combined with cardio-kickboxing and good nutrition, strength training works! And I am now going to blog about it, sharing with my readers how they too can have a more toned and healthier body as well as slow down that aging process. Let’s get it started!
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