Resistance Band Strength Training

Strength training is ranked #2 among the popular trends for 2012, up from #6 five years ago according to the American College of Sports Medicine. Research studies in the past 10 years have shown that strength training with weights, resistance bands, kettle balls, or anything that build lean muscle have positive affects on the body and mind. Studies have shown that progressive resistance training can help numerous diseases like: osteoporosis, heart disease, diabetes, depression as well positive affects on self esteem. When you feel stronger, you feel more capable of dealing with life’s little problems.

Resistance Band Exercises

Resistance Band Exercises

“In the last decade, research has shown that resistance exercise can help numerous disease states,” including depression, says Jeffrey Potteiger, dean of graduate studies at Grand Valley State University near Grand Rapids, Mich.

“You can improve your overall health just by watching your weight and taking walks in the neighborhood. But if you want to improve your fitness — look better, maximize health, have more energy, prevent injuries — you need to do more,” said Potteiger, who has spent 24 years doing research on strength training.

In recent years, emphasis has shifted to a type of resistance training that builds muscles used in day-to-day tasks, helping avoid injury or re-injury. Called functional strength training, it helps with such chores as hefting infants in and out of car seats or lifting garage doors. Another goal is to reduce the risk factors in patients with chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, heart disease and diabetes.

“Part of my job is trying to convince that 85-year-old woman that she really should start weight lifting,” says Dr. Dennis Kerrigan, senior exercise physiologist at Henry Ford Health System’s Center for Athletic Medicine in Detroit. The bone-strengthening effect of strength training is widely known. Others who need persuading are women recently treated for breast cancer, Kerrigan says.

“Friends and family tell them, ’Take it easy,’” but chemotherapy can reduce muscle mass, leaving body fat that’s linked to cancer returning, he says. The prescription? Strength training.

I’m a physical education teacher and a martial arts teacher for many decades. So, I’m really happy to hear that people are finally catching on to the benefits of progressive resistance training. The body is an incredible structure of muscles that are used for every action, internally and externally. A lot of people get hurt when they go to do a simple thing, such as lifting a child and not having the strength or correct posture to do it safely. If you don’t use your muscles they atrophy, getting weak and smaller. A strength training exercise program with resistance bands is the ideal toning and maintenance program for keeping muscles fit. A couple of days a week for 30-45 would do wonders for your mind and body.

If you would like to read further of the various research projects done, read original article.

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