So why do we want to workout?

You’re flicking through a fitness magazine in a doctors waiting room the page opens on a guy with rippling muscles, chiselled chest and arms, defined small waist and perfect sixpack, there is a girl with her arms around his waist she too has a perfect toned body, why did the magazine open on that page? Because it’s the most looked at page in the mag its what everyone desires, But its not all about looking great working-out has some amazing unseen benefits too.

As you age, strengthening your muscles has a number of primary and secondary benefits. For one thing, it helps to maintain bone mass. Thinner bones in both men and women can mean Osteoporosis or the weak bone disease that causes debilitating hip, spine, ankle, and other common fractures in the elderly. The loss of muscle and its corresponding strength with aging inhibits your competitive edge and performance level. Proper weight training requires you move muscles and joints through a full range of motion, much broader than required in many sports. This gives your body a supportive, flexible overall muscle tone. Weight training also works to boost your metabolic rate and calorie burning efficiency, because muscle tissue uses more calories than body fat. And finally, with strong muscles, tendons and ligaments, you are less likely to twist or sprain something.