Strength Training: Good for Muscles, Great for Bones

For the soreness, you don't know how to breathe during exercise and a warm up or cool down that significantly reduces soreness, also helps in lung expansion to impress your doctor. Arms out to the side, while doing a toe rise, lift your arms (angel wing style) up over your head, inhaling on the way up, hold for 15-30 seconds, exhale on the way down (reverse of what you just did). I found I have 1/3 the soreness due to anaerobic reactions when I do this. (I hate his idea of diet, but part of Dr. Stillman's 15 minutes in his 14 day shape up program). And for some of us with the resistance/streng
th training, the Hail Marys are necessary just to get us through it :) ! But to hear your praise (altho a stubborn lil cuss about what's good for you) is motivating and wonderful. Great article. - 4/10/2013 10:10:34 AM

I so loved the last paragraph because that is exactly how I feel, too. At 64 I am seeing many friends who are just a bit older than me succumb to various illnesses and health problems, many of which are secondary to poor nutrition and refusal to exercise. They have reached their "point of no return" where their impairments due to lack of exercise are now their reasons for not exercising. My greatest motivator to exercise is seeing it as a means of thanking God that I still can. Because I know that the day will come when I can't, I rejoice in doing what I still can. - 1/5/2013 12:07:58 PM

anyone else having trouble with the large sized ads on this article? I have tried to close it and just about everything I can think of but it sits over half the article on two of the pages - 9/5/2012 6:08:28 AM

Really nicely written. Thank you. - 8/12/2012 1:49:13 AM

I have cardio 6 days a week. Starting in Jan this year I started circuit training,. It's doing a lot of machines one right after the other . Just last month kicked it up with an added weight lifting session. I like to say I am 70 going on 50. - 5/13/2012 1:43:13 AM

This article is so about me. I am working hard at my strength training to help prevent ostio........plan
ks, pushups, bridges are all in my workout. I am thinking swimming but be a good idea too. thanks for the push! - 5/12/2012 11:55:06 AM

Love the dialog. I'm expanding my workout and wanted to do some toning resistance training. - 5/12/2012 9:30:18 AM

interesting article...thank u for posting - 3/25/2012 8:03:15 AM

I absolutely LOATH strength training.....I do it but loath it! Thank you for this article...a gentle reminder of why ST is so important.....I can't promise to learn to enjoy it but I will promise to quit loathing it as much! - 2/15/2012 11:55:41 AM

Great article! I'm guilty of neglecting strength training, too - cardio I can do all day, every day, but when it comes to push-ups...

But I'm resolved to work harder at it, because of the history of osteoporosis in my family, and because of the increase in metabolism that comes from developing muscle tissue. Thanks for the reminder! - 1/20/2012 11:15:12 AM

Fantasic read - thanks so much for sharing this.

I have been guilty for too many years of not doing nearly enough strenght training, being a self-confessed cardio junkie.

At 42 years of age and with both my mum and grand-mum surrefers from osteo-arthritis, I am even more inspired now to up my strength work. Thanks again! - 1/20/2012 11:09:57 AM

WONDERFUL article, LOVE it!! Love the idea of praying, of using exercise in an intercessory way... love the way she writes! (Oh, and I love strength training, too!) - 10/19/2011 12:47:47 PM

Great article. Makes me realize how important this type of exercise is. - 10/10/2011 6:58:28 PM

Thank you! Your article has inspired me to get started on a weight training program, as I see it has for many other Sparkers also. - 10/10/2011 12:57:49 PM

my first comment an an article in a year and half of sparking. I loved this article and the suggestion to pray for others while doing something I am not fond of. Thanks. - 10/10/2011 11:38:16 AM