Weight Lifting Exercises Guide
~ Get some meat on them bones! ~

Weight lifting exercises have many benefits. It can increase your self-esteem while also increasing your energy level. Here are some weight lifting tips to help you get started on your own weight lifting workouts.

Weight training plays a crucial role in building muscle, it's important to learn about each of the muscle groups before designing your weight lifting exercises program.

First, start by planning out which days you're going to do the weight training exercises, then fit those sessions into your day.

Many times beginners will go to the gym without any direction, expecting fast results in a short period of time. TIP: If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.

With that being said, even if you have the best weight training exercises program laid out, you won't get anywhere if you disregard other important aspects like nutrition, rest and recovery.

What you will gain from this article:

Benefits of Weight Lifting
What Happen's to My Muscles?
Types of Muscle Fibers
Weight Lifting Tips

What's YOUR Favorite
Weight Lifting Exercise and Why?

Teach Others What You Know and
Share Your Move!

Benefits of Weight Lifting

Having stronger muscles will improve your posture and help keep your body in balance.

Weight training builds bone which can help to prevent osteoporosis.

Weight lifting can increase your lean body mass which will increase your metabolism.

Tones and shapes your body.

Stronger muscles help prevent injuries.

Create positive changes for your state of mind as well. With a strong healthy body you'll look better, feel better, sleep better and just do everything better.

Ladies - it can boost your bust! Work the muscles under your breasts to make them appear bigger.

It decreases your blood pressure which decreases the risk of heart disease.

You'll have MORE ENERGY!

What Happens to My Muscles
When I Lift Weights?

Every time you perform weight lifting exercises, it breaks down the muscle tissue for the specific muscle you are working.

The main goal of your workout is to break down as many muscle fibers as you can. So basically, you're getting weaker and breaking down muscle during your workout! Sounds crazy, huh?

The only time you build muscle is when your body is resting and recovering.

Once the muscle fibers are broken down, your body realizes that these muscle fibers need to be repaired and your body then uses nutrients from your diet to repair them. That's why it's important to have a healthy diet.

Each time your body has to rebuild muscle tissue, it will actually build a little more than before. This forces your muscle fibers to repair and grow stronger than before.

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Types of Muscle Fibers

Clearly, the types of fibers that make up individual muscles influence the way an athlete should chooses their training programs.

There's a reason why some athletes can sprint faster and gain bigger muscles easier than others, and why some athletes are able to run longer without fatigue.

Muscle fiber types can be broken down into two main categories:

1. Slow Twich Fibers (Type I) - used in activities that require a lot of endurance. These fibers are more effective at using oxygen to generate more fuel for continuous, extended muscle contractions over a long period of time.

They set off slower than fast twitch fibers and can go for a long time before they fatigue. So, slow twitch fibers are great at helping athletes run marathons and ride a bicycle for hours.

2. Fast Twitch Fibers (Type I & II) - used in activities that require explosive movements, like sprinting. These fibers use your metabolism (no oxygen) to create fuel, they are in charge of generating short bursts of strength or speed than slow muscles.

Staying consistent with endurance training, can develop more muscle fibers and improve their ability to cope with and adapt to the stress of exercise.

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Tips for Weight Lifting Exercises

What's Your Favorite Weight Lifting Move?

There are many different workout routines when it comes to weight lifting for men and women. What's the weight lifting routine that keeps you in shape?

Or do you have a favorite that just hits the spot every time? It can be anything you do using weights.

I love punching with weights, I always feel the burn in my arms and my whole back. It's also a little cardio workout and gets my heart pumping.

You're the author here. If you're a personal trainer then this is perfect for you to show your audience what YOU know and how it can change ones body or way of training, this is your page that you're creating.

So, again...what's YOUR favorite weight lifting exercise?

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