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Strength Training Exercise
Strength training has a number of benefits, not the least of which is helping you lose weight and, of course, keeping your body strong. If you want to feel stronger, get more flexible, achieve better balance and body harmony, and just be able to perform physical activities much better than you do at present, it's time to get into strength training. Strength training exercises activates your muscles to work further than it is used to, which, in effect, is how it becomes stronger.
There are three basic kinds of strength training exercises: abdominal, upper body and lower body exercises. Abdominal exercises strengthen your center, which is supposed to give you optimum control over the rest of your body and keep all your power in check. Exercises for the upper body involve the back and arms, while legs, thighs and hips are developed by lower body exercises.
In strength training nearly all of the exercises will be lifting weights, they will be your weight resistance. It is important to have a strength training program that involves the majority of the muscles in your body. Don't just focus on one part of your body e.g. if you wanted to get a nice six pack. Do this and the rest of your body will suffer. A primary program you can start with would involve the bench press, lateral pull downs, overhead press, bicep curl and triceps pull down for upper body squats, leg extensions and leg curls and abdominal crunches for your midsection.
Your strength training exercise program should be very basic when you start out. These exercises hold squats with bicep curls, or with overhead press, lunges with lateral raises, and so on. Just these are for afterward, when you've already achieved some strength and experience in strength training. As you progress with your exercises, the amount of resistance that is applied to your exercises must increase as well, but again, don't rush into it. The only way to go is up. You'll be stronger before you know it.
