Thursday, June 18, 2015

Weightlifting for Heart Health

Conventional wisdom has been that the best exercise to improve  heart health and maintain a healthy cardiovascular sytem and thereby reducin...

Weightlifting for Overall Health

 Whether your 8 or 80, weightlifting can be used to improve your overall health. While at one time it was thought that children should avoid...

Weightlifting and Strength Training

 In many articles and in common usage you will hear or see weightlifting and strength training used as if they are the same thing. They tech...

Weightlifting and Body Mass Index

One of the ways that medical professionals determine if you are overweight is by a rating called body mass index. BMI is an approximate meas...

Weightlifting and General Fitness

Weightlifting is probably the single most effective exercise you can do to improve health and general fitness. Weightlifting raises your met...

Weightlifting Techniques – The Proper Deadlift

In weight lifting it is important to know the proper techniques to achieve the desired benefit of a given weight lift exercise. Lifting inco...

Weightlifting Techniques – The Proper Squat

To achieve the proper benefit for any given weight lift exercise you must know the proper techniques and do it right. Incorrect lifting tech...

Weightlifting and Weight Loss

 Can I lose weight by lifting weights? It is a good question. And the answer is if that is the intention of your weight lifting regimen - ye...

Basic Weightlifting Equipment

When it comes to exercise equipment, with the possible exception of the jump rope you really cant get much more basic then the gear you need...

How does Weightlifting Increase Muscle Size?

We all know that lifting weights leads to bigger muscles, harder muscles, and more definition. But just how does weight lifting do that? Wha...