Articles for tag: Free Weights, Obese Women, Strength Training

Why Obese Women Should Strength Train with Free Weights

Obese women absolutely need to do strength training, especially with free weights! I’m a certified personal trainer. I continue to see a severe shortage of obese women lifting weights, i.e., strength training, especially in the free-weight area. The free weight area is always barren of obese women. On the rare occasions I see obese women ...

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The Benefits of Strength Training for Seniors

While there is no such thing as the fountain of youth, strength training can prevent and even reverse some of the effects of aging. Traditionally, common perception has been that the loss of strength and muscle mass is a normal result of the aging process. However, while a certain decrease is to be expected, deterioration ...

Women’s Strength Training Guide for Maximum Fat Loss

I’m a certified personal trainer and will describe in detail how a woman can use strength training to achieve the greatest amount of fat loss anywhere in her body. In order for strength training to burn maximal fat, strength training must be done very intensely. There is a correlation between intensity and how heavy the ...

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Best Strength Training Routines for Elderly: Top 5 Exercises

If you’re elderly, you should strength train. This means lift weights. Elderly women, especially, should lift weights, which is, quite literally, training for strength. I’m a certified personal trainer, and the latest research, like much previous research on this topic, once again shows that strength training is extremely beneficial for the elderly population. In elderly ...

Strength Training Benefits Older Adults

With the wide publicity America is receiving in regards to the growing obesity rate, there are countless programs designed to lose weight and get in shape. Strength training has obvious benefits to those looking to burn calories otherwise stored as excess fat. What is not so widely talked about is the benefit that strength training ...