Weight-resistance training is the only way to truly sculpt our bodies. Cardio (such as jogging) is great for staying in shape, but when it comes to staying in shape and taking charge of the way our bodies look, weight-resistance training is the greater payoff.
Especially as we get older, we need to maintain muscle tone, which is essential for such basic things as holding our abdomens and backs in place. If we lose too much muscle tone, we may suffer in big ways, down the road.
EMedicineHealth.com has some good points about why we need weight-resistance training more than ever:
“The benefits of resistance exercise are well documented, and ongoing research continues to prove that it’s an important activity for Americans to be engaged in. Long ago in hunter-gatherer societies, humans’ muscles got a workout by building shelter, hunting, farming, and all the other manual chores necessary to live. Today, however, we have engineered inactivity into our lives with labor-saving devices to the extent that our muscles rarely need to be pushed very hard. We don’t rake leaves or cut grass or shovel snow by hand; we don’t climb stairs or even walk in airports (people movers do it for us!); we don’t wash our clothes or our dishes or even push a vacuum by hand (Have you seen the robotic vacuum Roomba?), and we spend more and more time in front of our computers and televisions than we do outdoors raking leaves, playing touch football, baseball, soccer, hiking, or participating in any other recreational activities. Research shows that physical inactivity is the second leading preventable cause of death in the United States, and it’s literally killing us.”
Read more: http://www.emedicinehealth.com/strength_training/page3_em.htm#resistance
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-Melissa Chandler, Body For The Ages Blogger
Are you self-conscious about going to the gym?
Check out this quote from the Apria Healthcare website:
“In today’s weight room, you’re as likely to see a grandmother working her glutes as a quarterback working his quads, now that resistance exercise is recognized as vital to building strong muscles and bones.”
Read more here: http://www.apria.com/channels/1,2748,94-193,00.html
Pax’s Prescription Method of Training will show you how weight-resistance training will not only strengthen your muscles, but your heart as well.
Pax didn’t just treat his heart disease – he reversed it. Now his passion is to show others how to do the same. Why? Because it’s completely unnecessary that 50% of people die from Heart Disease or heart related illnesses. Body For The Ages seeks to eliminate this insidious statistic.
Read Pax’s story at www.BodyForTheAges.com. He’s living proof that you can take control of your health, beat heart risks, and have fun in the process.
Until Next Time,
Melissa Chandler
Body For The Ages Blogger
Hello Wellness Nuts -
I recently came accross an article that powerfully endorses what we’re doing here at Body For the Ages Nonprofit to fight Heart Disease with our Online Wellness Program.
This article featured on Worldhealth.net, discusses the beneficial factors in total body physiology that one can achieve through exercise.
Although the article grasps the general notion around our program, it still only scratches the surface of our specific regiment. Our Nonprofit’s founder, Pax Beale, defeated Heart Disease through a commitment to Delectable Nutrition, the Benefits of our patented Pyruvate, and Weight-Resistance Training.
Weight-Resistence training differs from other forms of aerobic or cardio exercise due to its impact on blood-pressure; in conjunction with the supplementation of Pyruvate (believed by researchers to have strong benefits for the Heart), aids the creation of a sysnergistic rehabilitation for the cardio-vascular system and better positions one to live to their Maximum Genetic Lifespan!
To learn more about Pax’s story view the video below or visit us at Body For the Ages Nonprofit!
Pax Beale: Heart Expert
Team Body For the Ages
Weight training is more art than science. Aerobics is no more than putting one foot in front of the other to make certain you don’t fall on your face. To ensure maximum exposure to the art of building a body of your dreams, change trainers periodically. No one trainer has all the knowledge of the sport’s infinite number of techniques.
Having been active in the field of medicine for a third of a century, I can tell you the art of weight training is not commonly known to medical professionals. To exacerbate the problem, most know not, that they know not.
If you are rehabilitating from a medical condition or physical injury, consider the following. You are not interested so much in how a muscle works, but how to work the muscle. At BackPax (”peaceful backs” in Latin) Medical Center, the medically-oriented back rehabilitation clinic I founded, we gave up on physical therapists and instead hired registered nurses and nurse practitioners. Not only were these nurse professionals more open to creative ideas about rehabilitation, they were generally more involved in their own back health and general fitness programs.
The nursing profession couldn’t be better represented by anyone other than my colleague, best friend, tower of power, and wife, Sophie “Super Soph” Taggart…Ms. America, Ms. World and Ms. Universe. I think if you looked up “commitment” in the dictionary you would see her picture. Yeah, I’m biased, but the credentials and the body warrants it. Actually, “Super Soph” is a step above the level of a registered nurse, as she is a registered nurse practitioner. The latter in many cases can prescribe drugs and diagnose medical problems, just like a licensed medical doctor, while the more common registered nurse does not have those options.
The typical physical therapists’ inherent deficiency, besides not knowing the art of the game, was that they wanted to control you, rather than train you. This is a sensitive area with me. When I scanned client results at BackPax I found, without exception, that individuals who were allowed to take responsibility for their own rehabilitation garnered infinitely superior results.
For some inexplicable reason, in my vast travels from one gym to another throughout the world, rarely do I see registered physical therapists as members, but the gyms always seem to be loaded with registered nurses and nurse practitioners
Some credentialed exercise physiologists and kinesiologists in licensed medical environments are quite knowledgeable about rehabilitation through weight-resistance training, but currently their work in this field is not routinely reimbursed by insurance companies. They are frequently regulated to monitoring treadmill stress tests, while weight-resistance training authority reverts back to the ill trained physical therapist. Nevertheless, given the option, I would choose an exercise physiologist or a kinesiologist with weight-resistance training experience over a physical therapist or medical doctor any day.
The best personal trainers are those that are independent business professionals (not employed) in the gyms, and the best personal coaches are likewise independent contractors in fitness-oriented health centers, not the hospitals. Period. End of report. Many personal trainers are not even college graduates, but a lot of them are so dedicated they have taken any one of a host of available educational weight-resistance training programs and become certified trainers. A registered physical therapist degree or a medical shingle hung on an office wall does not represent a person qualified to teach the art of weight-resistance training. I can’t say it with enough emphasis: If you are a stabilized heart rehab patient, and are allowed to exercise, get out of the hospital rehab center as fast as you are medically able. (Note: I emphasize only if you are a stabilized heart patient).
Find yourself, a personal trainer, or personal coach, and turn your rehabilitation into a fun wellness lifestyle…and yes, even an anti-aging lifestyle. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Don’t think you are going to find a medical professional who will solve your rehab problem, once you have stabilized from surgery. Don’t think the solution is only a prescription for a drug. Don’t think of every breath as your last. Ultimately, we all have a last breath. Move on. Get yourself a personal trainer, or preferably the more broad-based, multi-faceted personal coach, who knows the art even better than the science of weight-resistance training, and who will coach and encourage you. Understand results are your responsibility and involve your practicing the Total Commitment Motivational, Wellness Philosophy, then you will experience a real anti-aging, rejuvenating lifestyle.