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Strength Training Program for Women
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STRENGTH TRAINING PROGRAM FOR WOMEN
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After the age of 20, women who do not strength train will lose about 5 pounds of muscle every decade of adult life. This leads to a slower metabolism and a gradual increase in fat weight (about 15 pounds per decade), as well as an increased risk for diabetes, arthritis and heart disease. A strength training program helps develop strong and shapely muscles that will improve your physical appearance, your mood and your sex life.
Benefits of Strength Training
- Develop strong bones. Strength training increases bone density and reduces your risk for osteoporosis. If you already have osteoporosis, strength training can delay and lessen bone fragility and bone loss.
- Control your body fat. When you lose muscle, your body burns calories less efficiently and thus you gain weight. Too much body fat can influence cholesterol, blood pressure and contribute to metabolic syndrome, diabetes and heart disease.
- Reduce your risk of injury. Building muscle protects your joints from injury and helps you maintain flexibility and balance. This can prevent falls and fractures as you get older.
- Boost your stamina and frequency of love making. As you grow stronger, you won't fatigue as easily. Don't let your partner do all of the "work." Show some more enthusiasm. Bleep his brains out.
- Strength training increases endorphins, your body's ‘feel-good’ chemicals, giving your mood a natural boost.
- Improve your sense of well-being. Strength training can boost your self-confidence, improve your body image and significantly reduce your risk for depression.
- Get a better night's sleep. Women who strength train often are less likely to suffer from insomnia.
There are numerous benefits to strength training regularly, particularly as you grow older. Consider supplementing your strength training with a weekly yoga or tai chi class to improve your breathing and flexibility.
It can be very powerful in reducing the signs and symptoms of numerous diseases and chronic conditions, among them:
- arthritis
- diabetes
- osteoporosis
- obesity
- back pain
- depression
Arthritis Relief
Tufts University recently completed a strength-training program with older men and women with moderate to severe knee osteoarthritis. The results of this sixteen-week program showed that strength training decreased pain by 43%, increased muscle strength and general physical performance, improved the clinical signs and symptoms of the disease, and decreased disability. The effectiveness of strength training to ease the pain of osteoarthritis was just as potent, if not more potent, as medications. Similar effects of strength training have been seen in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
Restoration of Balance and Reduction of Falls
As people age, poor balance and flexibility contribute to falls and broken bones. These fractures can result in significant disability and, in some cases, fatal complications. Strengthening exercises, when done properly and through the full range of motion, increase a person's flexibility and balance, which decrease the likelihood and severity of falls. One study in New Zealand in women 80 years of age and older showed a 40% reduction in falls with simple strength and balance training.
Strengthening of Bone
Post-menopausal women can lose 1-2% of their bone mass annually. Results from a study conducted at Tufts University, which were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1994, showed that strength training increases bone density and reduces the risk for fractures among women aged 50-70.
Proper Weight Maintenance
Strength training is crucial to weight control, because individuals who have more muscle mass have a higher metabolic rate. Muscle is active tissue that consumes calories while stored fat uses very little energy. Strength training can provide up to a 15% increase in metabolic rate, which is enormously helpful for weight loss and long-term weight control.
Improved Glucose Control
More than 14 million Americans have type II diabetes—a staggering three-hundred percent increase over the past forty years—and the numbers are steadily climbing. In addition to being at greater risk for heart and renal disease, diabetes is also the leading cause of blindness in older adults. Fortunately, studies now show that lifestyle changes such as strength training have a profound impact on helping older adults manage their diabetes. In a recent study of Hispanic men and women, 16 weeks of strength training produced dramatic improvements in glucose control that are comparable to taking diabetes medication. Additionally, the study volunteers were stronger, gained muscle, lost body fat, had less depression, and felt much more self-confident.
Healthy State of Mind
Strength training provides similar improvements in depression as anti-depressant medications. Currently, it is not known if this is because people feel better when they are stronger or if strength training produces a helpful biochemical change in the brain. It is most likely a combination of the two. When older adults participate in strength training programs, their self-confidence and self-esteem improve, which has a strong impact on their overall quality of life.
Sleep Improvement
People who exercise regularly enjoy improved sleep quality. They fall asleep more quickly, sleep more deeply, awaken less often, and sleep longer. As with depression, the sleep benefits obtained as a result of strength training are comparable to treatment with medication but without the side effects or the expense.
Healthy Heart Tissue
Strength training is important for cardiac health because heart disease risk is lower when the body is leaner. One study found that cardiac patients gained not only strength and flexibility but also aerobic capacity when they did strength training three times a week as part of their rehabilitation program. This and other studies have prompted the American Heart Association to recommend strength training as a way to reduce risk of heart disease and as a therapy for patients in cardiac rehabilitation programs.
Research, published in the online journal PLoS One, shows that strength training may not only make older adults' muscles stronger, but younger as well. It's well known that resistance exercises improve muscle strength and function in young and old alike, but the new research suggests that strength training also affects older muscles on the level of gene expression -- essentially turning back the clock on muscle aging.
Researchers found that older and younger muscle tissues differed significantly in their gene expression profiles. The difference indicated that older muscle tissue had impaired functioning in mitochondria -- structures within cells that act as the cell's "powerhouse." That impairment was reversible, however. After older adults underwent 6 months of strength training, the gene expression profile in their muscles showed a more youthful appearance.
Experts have long known that exercise is good for younger and older adults alike, but the new findings suggest that it can "actually rejuvenate muscle" in older individuals.
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