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Women: Add Strength Training To Your Workouts For A Slimmer, Happier, Healthier You!

Many of our friends and family ask us why we have become “exercise fanatics” as they put it. I guess we are fanatic about it, but for good reason! We don’t want to lose our health and agility. The older we get, the more we realize how much we want to stay active as older adults. This is not going to happen if we continued to sit…sit at our desks…sit on the couch…sit in the car…As you have heard us say in many other articles “it is time to get off the couch…and the time is now!”

Most people know that adding a strength-training program to your workout routine can build muscles and increase strength in both men and women. When we are talking about strength training, we mean weight lifting! Yes, we are talking about pumping some iron! No, you will not look like a steroid-injected, testosterone overloaded hunk!

The benefits of weight lifting and strength training are many for both men and women! But we would like to address women in particular in this article. I for one am convinced of the benefits! My training coach, Pete told me the other day “You stick with weight-training at least twice per week and you will be amazed at the results!”

Women – we want to tell you why you should add a strength training program to your workouts!

Halts bone loss and even helps restore bone: A woman typically loses one percent of her bone mass each year after menopause. She loses even more during the first five postmenopausal years. Over time, a woman can easily develop osteoporosis if she does not do anything about the natural propensity for bone loss during the aging process. Bones become so porous that they can easily break. Strength training can stop this process. In a study from Tufts University, Women who did not exercise lost about two percent of their bone density over the year of the study. Women who strength-trained not only did not lose bone, they gained one percent.

Improves Balance: Our ability to stay in balance also declines with the aging process. Is there anything that doesn’t? This change happens so gradually that sometimes we may not even notice it until we are in our seventies! But falling, usually the result of deteriorated balance, can become a real significant hazard later in life. I know that it is a fear that my folks and other friends of mine have. One fall is all it takes in some people. We have all heard the stories of a friend or family member who took a fall and ended up with a broken hip or fractured arm. Sometimes it leads to hospitalization, pneumonia and eventual death. The Tufts study showed an 8.5 percent decline in balance over the year of the study in women who did not exercise. In contrast, women in the strength-training group improved their balance abilities and their scores went up by 14!

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Prolotherapy may not be effective for every individual and there are risks involved, these risks should be discussed with your physician. Results achieved with some may not be typical of all. Please consult a physician.

There is no known cure for arthritis. Prolotherapy and nutritional supplements can help alleviate, reverse, or end arthritic pain by treating an underlying cause that contributes to degenerative disease, ligament laxity. Strengthening ligaments and other connective tissue can help prevent bone on bone arthritis from developing.

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