Author: Dr. Jamie Schwandt / Source: Lifehack
Are you curious about lifting weights but not sure why you should get started?
You’re in the right place!
I’ll be revealing the mind and body benefits of lifting weights and tell you why it will literally transform your life.
Discover the secret of strength training for women, and why you should start today.
8 Truths About Strength Training
You’ll Boost Your Social Capital
We all could use more friends! Although, many times our insecurity about our bodies and our appearances can prevent us from presenting our best selves in the world.
This lack of confidence we have about our identity can be enough to stop us from seeking new relationships both offline and online.
Lifting weights can and will positively change how you feel about yourself. You will experience a boost of self-confidence in many areas of your life such as your in career, in your personal relationships, and especially the relationship you have with yourself.
Confident people are linked with higher incomes, more friends, and–if you’re single–with having more desirable characteristics as a potential mate.
Increased self-confidence creates more opportunities to strengthen current relationships and attract additional relationships because you were assertive enough to seek them out.
New friends and contacts lead to richer life experiences and expanded opportunities in all areas of your life.
Weight training helps you put yourself out there more often and gives you the self-confidence to believe that people will value what you have to offer.
You’ll Love the Way You Look
If you’ve ever seen the before and after images on your Instagram or Facebook feed, then you know fitness inspiration pictures are all the rage these days.
The most interesting before and after photos are the ones where women weigh the same in both pictures but look totally different. Not only are they leaner, trimmer, and more toned but their weight hasn’t changed!
How is this possible?
I have two words for you: lifting weights. It’s unfortunate that the #1 go-to method for women who want to lose weight is to do cardio in excess, especially when the scale has stopped moving and they have stopped seeing results.
Cardio and a proper diet will definitely help you to lose weight, but without a lifting routine you will lose muscle mass at the same time. This is why when most people stray off of stricter diets the weight just comes straight back.
Your baseline metabolism is determined by the amount of muscle you have.
When you have less muscle, due to repeated dieting and cardio, then your body cannot handle the extra calories consumed when you get off the diet. This results in fat storage and weight gain and a serious bust to your self esteem.
If you added strength training into your routine, you wouldn’t encounter the same problem because you’ve increased your overall metabolism through building muscle while simultaneously lowering your bodyfat. Not only will you have more muscle than when you first started, but you’ll notice when looking in the mirror that you also have more tone, shape, and firmness overall.
Strength training is the reason why women look leaner after their transformations but still weigh the same. A leaner, stronger body is the end result of lifting weights regularly.
You Can Focus on Becoming More
When it comes to being healthy we’re obsessed with the number on the scale and it dictates how we feel the rest of the day.
We become very conscious about our eating and picky about what we eat. We start classifying our foods as ‘bad’ versus ‘good’ which starts an unhealthy relationship with food. On top of this, the media conditions us that we must look a certain way and meet specific cultural body standards.
With weight training we ignore the scale.
Instead we focus on how much we can lift today, the number on the weights (rather than the scale) and set our sights on lifting more than we did last week.
Unknowingly we start becoming role models for women at the gym and other women in our lives by focusing on what really matters in our fitness journey: our health and our strength, not the number on the scale.
You’ll Experience Self-Love!
Lifting weights will positively change your identity of who you are in many ways.
When you didn’t see the scale change as fast as you would you like, you may have embraced the idea that you have a slow metabolism.
Perhaps you are the person who had every legitimate excuse under the sun on why you didn’t exercise today–with lack of time being the primary excuse. You felt that other people who are in shape just have more willpower than you do and possibly just blessed with good genetics.
But when you start lifting weights, how you…
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