When properly performed, strength training can provide significant functional benefits and improvement in overall health and well-being, including increased bone, muscle, tendon and ligament strength and toughness, improved joint function, reduced potential for injury, increased bone density, a temporary increase in metabolism, improved cardiac function, and elevated HDL (good) cholesterol. Training commonly uses the technique of progressively increasing the force output of the muscle through incremental increases of weight, elastic tension or other resistance, and uses a variety of exercises and types of equipment to target specific muscle groups. Strength training is primarily an anaerobic activity, although some proponents have adapted it to provide the benefits of aerobic exercise through circuit training.
Strength training differs from bodybuilding, weightlifting, powerlifting, and strongman, which are sports rather than forms of exercise, although training for them is inherently interconnected with strength training, as it is for shotput, discus, and Highland games. Many other sports use strength training as part of their training regimen, notably football, lacrosse, basketball, hockey and track and field.
Strength Training Resources
- Vertical Jump Training System
- No nonsense Muscle Building and/or Your Six Pack Quest
- 7 Minute Body
- Muscle Gaining Secrets
- AthLEAN-X
- Bodybuilding Revealed: Muscle Building
Club - Blast Your Bench Muscle Building Workout
Program - Maximum Strength
Workout - Iron Dolls – Female Bodybuilding
Secrets - Body Re-Engineering Bodybuilding
System - Underground Strength
Kit - Escalating Density Training By Charles
Staley - Blast Your Biceps: How To Add 2 Inches To Your Arms In Just 8
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