How does lifting weights affect your health?
Vonda Wright, MD, says the benefits of strength training go way beyond stronger muscles. Learn how weight lifting helps melt belly fat and prevent arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, and other health woes.
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Combining aerobic and weight training provides double the benefits. [MUSIC PLAYING]
If you're not already including strength training in your workouts, you're missing more than feeling strong.
Muscle work using free weights, elastic bands, machines, or your own body weight, like with push-ups,
increases blood flow and keeps your system humming smoothly. And that's not all.
Pumping iron also provides an instant energy boost. Just 10 minutes a day three times
a week will increase your energy, making you feel great. What's more, flexing your muscles
can help you fight off a host of health threats, from arthritis and diabetes to osteoporosis, heart disease,
strokes, and depression. Combining aerobic and weight training provides double the benefits.
They make belly fat disappear much faster than aerobics alone. That's because strength training builds muscles
so you can burn more calories throughout the day. So get moving. Start pumping and prepare to look as good as you feel,
or even better. [AUDIO LOGO]
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