Add Weight to What You Do

My message today is simple to say but sometimes difficult to do. No matter how often you work out it is very important to add strength training to your routine.

Weight bearing exercises are especially important for women as it increases bone strength giving us extra wear on our aging bones. This will help to prevent and lessen the effect of osteoporosis. The same is true for men, bone strength is equally important as all of us age.

I have a couple of suggestions to add weights into your normal work out. If you usually do cardio for 30 minutes, one of those days make your cardio 10 minutes to warm up then add in the weights. Weighted workouts will burn fat through out the day, your muscles are warm and working better. If you add walking lunges, knees up, balance training you can even keep your heart rate up while do the strength training. Of course the best suggestion I can give is to add to 20 minute weighted workouts to your week.

The important thing is to do what you can but pick up those weights and get your muscles tight and your bones strong!