Engaging in strength training 2-3 days per week helps build and strengthen your muscles. As your muscles adapt and grow with resistance improves your overall daily function, strength and endurance to everyday activities of daily living.

Strength training stimulates bone remodelling and increases bone density decreasing the risk of fractures at any age and preventing osteoporosis.

Increasing your muscle mass through strength training, will elevate your resting metabolic rate aiding in weight management because the increased muscle mass or muscle tissue burns more calories at rest than it does with fat tissue. 

Strength training contributes to fat loss by increasing your overall energy expenditure.  It maintains lean body mass while shedding excess visceral fat.  By strength training you are decreasing your chances of contracting Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, Metabolic syndrome, just to name a few health benefits.   

Although strength training looks as though it primarily targets muscles, it also has cardiovascular benefits.  Enhancing blood flow, lowers blood pressure and improves overall heart health. By targeting muscle groups for strength we overall increase our cardiovascular endurance and affect. 

Strengthening your muscles will improve balance, reduce falling, and the likelihood of injuring yourself.  Among the older adult population this is crucial to longevity and overall vitality.

Strength training 2-3 times per week on top of your other exercise habits, enhance your overall ability to perform daily activities, making life more enjoyable and making your life easier. 

Strength training as well as a set regime of physical exercise has been recognised to positively impact and improve mental wellbeing of clients, alleviating depression, anxiety, stress and other neurological disorders. The Impact of strength training on brain chemicals and hormones levels out spikes in dopamine, noradrenaline and serotonin, which are the three major neurotransmitters.  aids in releasing endorphins, promoting brain function and it protects from degeneration in specific subregions of the hippocampus which plays a major role in learning and memory functions. 

With strength training 3 times per week we see significant increases in longevity in our populations. Compared to those that do not exercise with resistance training, Harvard health have written “No matter how much aerobic exercise they did, participants who did strength training at least twice a week had a lower risk of dying (regardless of cause) during the study period than those who did not take part in strength training as part of their lifestyle.”