Weight lifting helps your body from the inside, out. Strength training increases your heart muscle so that it performs better and lowers risks of heart attacks or failure. Adding weight

lifting to your workout regimen will help lower your blood pressure.

One of the best ways you can control bone loss as you age is to add strength training into your workout plan. Lifting weights not only increases muscle, but creates

new bone cells, making your bones more dense.

Weight lifting increases the strength of your muscles, connective tissues, and tendons. With that in mind, your chances of getting injured while performing everyday activities or a certain workout will reduce

tremendously. 

You may be surprised to find that strength training can actually blast away belly fat faster than doing a cardio workout. While aerobic exercise burns both fat and muscle, weight lifting burns

almost exclusively fat.

Muscle burns more calories than fat does. So, if you want to constantly be burning calories, whether you're sedentary or working out, you'll want to be built of more muscle

than fat.

Adding weight lifting to your routine can help you shed some serious fat. As it burns a ton of calories and helps build muscle, you'll see some amazing transformations along the

way. 

Just be aware that muscle weighs more than fat, so when you see the number on the scale not change or even go up, don't be upset. See the

changes in your dress size or inches of your waist, not the number on the scale.

Strength training exercises that use your mobility will help you improve your flexibility just as much as static stretching can. Use light weights in a full range motion such as

doing leg lifts or kicks with ankle weights.

It's amazing what weight lifting can do to you besides build muscle. You may just find a big boost in confidence as you begin to feel that you can achieve just

about anything. Feel that empowerment!