Strength Training
Strength Core Training and Preserving Muscle

Core Strength Training

One of the most important areas you should work on to improve your overall fitness, is development of your core strength and stability.

What is your core?

Your core is made up of several different muscles arranged in layers. It has deep, middle and outer layers. Imagine it like a corset that wraps around your body, underneath your ribs and down to your pelvis.

Fortunately, its very easy to train your core in just a few minutes per day.

Why?

Your core is responsible for supporting and stabilizing your upper body during everyday movements such as twisting, bending and lifting. Having a strong core helps create good posture which in turn helps to promote a strong back.
A lot of back pain is simply caused by poor posture and weak core abdominal muscles.

Here are some really good examples of Core Stability Exercises that you can start with right away.

Strength Training - For The Core

Core Strength Training Workout

Preserve your muscle - Build Strength Training into your Workout

Here's some facts that you may or may not know about your muscles and why it's important to use and preserve them;

1. Muscles require energy & burn calories even when not in use, so they increase your metabolism and help burn fat.

2. Muscles support your skeleton. Depletion of muscle over time due to old age and inactivity causes poor posture because your body can no longer support it's own weight.

3. Regular resistance training with weights helps to preserve muscle mass.

4. The more you use a muscle, the stronger & more toned it gets.

5. Muscle tone is when the muscle is in a state of readiness.

6. Muscle does not turn to fat if it's not used. Fat and muscle are 2 totally different types of tissue.

7. Yo yo fad dieting causes muscle loss due to the starvation response. Basically your body eats it's self for energy because you are depriving it of the right amount of fuel to function.

8. Women will not develop huge muscles when training with weights, instead they will increase their metabolism, burn more fat and tone up.

9. Muscle helps to improve balance and posture, hence preventing injury and joint related problems in old age

10. You only need to include 2 resistance training sessions per week to get all these benefits. Resistance training should become part of a well balanced training program that includes CV exercise, flexibility and a healthy diet

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