Health Benefits to Resistance Training

What's good? This is my first blog on resistance training, i hope you learn something! 
Everyone knows (or everyone should know) that exercising is not only crucial to maintaining one's health, yet it's importance is far beyond looking good. A major misconception, especially in the eyes of most women is that if you strength train (resistance training) or in other words lift weight's that you're going to bulk up and look like some freakish body builder.... FALSE. First of all, it's humanly impossible for females to experience the massive muscle hypertrophy that men experience because they don't produce enough testosterone (hormone from the androgen group which promotes protein synthesis and tissue growth) and here's a stat for you, men produce 40-60 times as much testosterone than women do. So ladies, now that getting "big" is out of the picture, lets talk about the benefits of resistance training for both men and women; here's five benefits you might not know...
1.) Major stress management technique and self esteem enhancer
2.) Injury prevention and rehabilitation
3.) Osteoporosis prevention and management
4.) Increased resting metabolism (more muscle, more heat produced= greater resting metabolism)
5.) Maintenance of fat free weight


The overall message i'm trying to get out is that building muscle is a great thing to do. From   a personal perspective, the greatest thing about resistance training besides the health benefits is the feel good aspect of it. I'm not saying get in the gym or grab a pair of weights and start going at it what i am advocating is to take your time and progress. In addition, if you are thinking about starting a resistance training program you should consult an exercise professional or check out my next blog on "common do's and dont's when resistance training", because the last thing you want to do is hurt yourself!