18 Great Reasons to Weight Train

• Weight training tones your muscles, which looks great and raises your basal metabolism . . . which causes you to burn more calories 24 hours-a-day. You’ll even burn more calories while you’re sleeping.
  
  
• Weight training can *reverse* the natural decline in your metabolism which begins around age 30.
  
  
• Weight training energizes you.
  
  
• Weight training has a positive affect on almost all of your 650+ muscles.
  
  
• Weight training strengthens your bones reducing your risk of developing osteoporosis.
  
  
• Weight training improves your muscular endurance.
  
  
• Weight training will NOT develop big muscles on women just tone muscles!
  
  
• Weight training makes you strong. Strength give you confidence and makes daily activities easier.
  
  
• Weight training makes you less prone to low-back injuries.
  
  
• Weight training decreases your resting blood pressure.
  
  
• Weight training decreases your risk of developing adult onset diabetes.
  
  
• Weight training decreases your gastrointestinal transit time, reducing your risk of developing colon cancer.
  
  
• Weight training increases your blood level of HDL cholesterol (the good type).
  
  
• Weight training improves your posture.
  
  
• Weight training improves the functioning of your immune system.
  
  
• Weight training lowers your resting heart rate, a sign of a more efficient heart.
  
  
• Weight training improves your balance and coordination.
  
  
• Weight training elevates your mood.