From 40 years of age onward, we begin to lose muscle. Muscle tissue acts like an engine for our body, speeding up our metabolism and burning energy around the clock (unlike cardio, which quits burning calories when you stop the exercise). This is why weight often creeps on as we age, since we’re putting the same amount of fuel into our bodies, yet our engine size (muscle tissue) is decreasing.
Muscles also act like scaffolding for our body, improving our posture and balance (preventing falls), keeping our bone density high (preventing fractures) and keeping us strong enough to keep doing all the activities we enjoy.
Functional strength training is highly recommended for protecting the health and well-being of adults over 40. The exercises in functional strength training closely replicate the movements you do in your everyday life, resulting in strength that’s immediately usable and useful. For example, you’ll develop and maintain the muscles used for pushing, pulling, bending, twisting, lunging, reaching, catching, squatting, turning, throwing and carrying.
In addition, functional strength training works the body as a total unit, which is naturally how it’s supposed to move and work. You’ll develop your core, which not only helps to hold you steady, it also supports your lower back and pelvis, and strengthens your hips. In these ways, functional strength training helps you burn more calories, tone up saggy arms, bellies and legs and is also highly practical for improving the quality of your day to day life.
How Do I Know If I’m A Good Candidate For Strength Training?
If you have any of the health concerns listed on the right, you stand to benefit greatly from strength training. You might already be doing some light exercise, perhaps walking or something similar, but at the back of your mind, you know you should be doing more.
However, it’s most likely that you don’t want to join a gym or bootcamp and be pushed to exhaustion with excessive cardio. If you also have an existing injury or niggling pain, you’ve probably been holding off for fear a trainer will make it worse, not better. If this sounds like you, you are an ideal candidate for strength training. It will tick all your boxes for health and fitness, ease aches and pains and is a comfortable workout you can actually enjoy.
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