How Strength Training Helps Your Health How does strength training and weight training help with your health? 1. Strength training makes you stronger and fitter. This benefit is the obvious one, but it shouldn’t be overlooked. Muscle strength is crucial in making it easier to do the things you need to do on a day-to-day basis — especially as we get older and naturally start to lose muscle. Strength training is also called resistance training because it involves strengthening and toning your muscles by contracting them against a resisting force. There are two types of resistance training: Isometric resistance involves contracting your muscles against a nonmoving object, such as against the floor in a push-up. And, isotonic strength training involves contracting your muscles through a range of motion as in weight lifting. We do both in this video! Click the BUTTON below to SignUP!
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