StrengthLab Philosophy!
Fitness and exercise get more important, rather than less important, as we get older.
Therefore, we should take a long-term approach to exercise, an approach that’s designed to keep us training for a life-time. Weight training is the first priority here, not only to increase personal fitness through enhanced muscular strength and muscular endurance but to maintain a dynamic balance between opposing muscle groups; which equates to a healthy range of motion throughout the body and its joints when practiced consistently. This is how range of motion is maintained or re-acquired as we age – stretching is NOT the answer to maintaining or increasing flexibility!
Consequently, consistent and intelligent weight training builds a robust foundation that aerobic exercise can be built upon. Aerobic exercise persued habitually, without a strategic resistance training program, is a recipe for imbalance, future injury and burn-out. Furthermore, as we age, imbalances occur naturally (as well as unnaturally) throughout our bodies due to work related repetitive motions, trauma from accidents and muscle tissue loss due to inactivity (which can occur as early as 25 years of age). As we age time spent resistance training should increase!
To summarize… no health and fitness program is complete without both elements – weight training and cardiovascular training. Unfortunately, both are typically not practiced consistently (or at all) and often when they’re executed they’re performed incorrectly by the majority of end users; the selected exercises, technique, frequency, intensity and duration are all keys to long-term progression and success.
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