Transcript Resistance Training: Benefits present and future

Resistance Training:
Benefits present and future
BY:
Ryan Sickles
Do You Really Know???
•
Which of these are resistance exercises? (may be more than 1 answer.
– A. Free Jogging
– B. Climbing stairs
– C. Push-ups
– D. Lifting
• How do you think your muscles grow?
• What will training your muscles do for your health?
What is Resistance Training
• What is it?
– Defined - any method or form of strength training used to
resist, overcome, or bear force.
– Free weights, resistance bands, your own body, anything
that makes your muscles contract from an external force
• Types
– Power lifting - a weight-lifting competition composing of
squats, dead lifts, and bench pressing
– Olympic weight lifting – lifting the weight overhead
– strength training – lifting weights to get stronger
Hypertrophy
• The process of building larger muscles
– 3 stages
• Equilibrium – neither working nor recovering,
• Catabolism – the workout stage where you use energy and
damage muscle fibers
• Anabolism – the recovery stage where you recover energy and
restore your muscle fibers
Immediate Benefits
• Increased muscle mass and tone
– Increased physical performance
– Injury prevention
• maintain body weight through increased metabolism
– Increased weight from muscle leads to higher need for
energy to keep body standing
– Leads to better body composition with proper nutrition
Benefits For Future
• helps fight osteoporosis (RESEARCH)
Now do you know???
•
Which of these are resistance exercises? (may be more than 1 answer.
– A. Free Jogging
– B. Climbing stairs
– C. Push-ups
– D. Lifting
• How do you think your muscles grow?
– Through the exercise period called catabolism and then
the recovery period called anabolism
• What will training your muscles do for your health?
Works Cited
• http://www.emedicinehealth.com/strength_tr
aining/article_em.htm
• http://www.ncpad.org/exercise/fact_sheet.ph
p?sheet=20&section=129
• http://medicaldictionary.thefreedictionary.com/resistance+tr
aining
• http://www.popularfitness.com/articles/bigbench.html