Could Resistance Training Be Right For You?
If you want to transform yourself into the shapely you hiding inside, our program at RC Fitness in Houston, TX, can be the perfect option. It uses a variety of techniques and different types of fitness training. Resistance training, endurance, balance and flexibility are all important to be the healthiest, shapeliest and most alluring you.
Resistance training is another way of saying strength training.
Some people hear the words strength training and worry they’ll become muscle-bound and bulky. That’s just not true, especially if you’re a woman. A woman’s physiology and hormonal balance won’t let that happen unless you’re doing a rigorous workout regimen. If you see some of the women body builders, many are on a strict regimen that require hours in the gym daily. Some even use hormones, like steroids, to get that bulky, hulk type appearance.
Weight loss is easier if you’re using resistance training.
When you do resistance training, you’re building muscle and burning fat. While cardio burns calories, the calories it burns come from both fat and muscle tissue. That’s not true of resistance training. The muscle tissue you build is sinewy and lean, so you look more toned than muscular. Why would you want to build more muscle tissue? The more muscle tissue you have, the more calories you’ll burn 24/7. It boosts your metabolism. When you’re resting, a pound of muscle tissue burns between 35 and 50 calories a day, while a pound of fat only burns 3 to 5 calories. That’s ten times more every day. If you change five pounds of fat to muscle, you’ll burn enough calories to lose a pound in 15 days with no other changes to your diet or energy output.
Strength training is good for your health and can help prevent serious injuries.
The older you get, the more muscle mass you lose. That change starts at about 30, if you’re younger and sedentary, it could begin early and be extremely devastating. The muscles tug on the bone and trigger the hormones that cause the bone to build. If there’s no tug, the bone density decreases, causing weak bones and osteoporosis. Strength training also improves the muscle tone, so you won’t have as much potential pulling a muscle doing something simple, like picking up a bag of groceries or a baby.
- While everyone needs some type of strength training, it should be tailored to your needs and situation. If you never exercised before, take it slowly and learn proper form to maximize benefits.
- Strength training can also improve your immune system, so you aren’t as susceptible to illness, whether it’s the common cold or something more severe like diabetes, high blood pressure or a heart attack.
- Strength training can help you shape your body and get that curvy appeal everyone wants. It can help improve your cognitive skills, burn off stress hormones and make you feel more relaxed.
- You don’t need any equipment for most of the strength training exercises offered in my program. Bodyweight exercises like planks, squats and bridges build strength, tone muscles and burn tons of calories.
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Your weight isn’t the only measurement you use to see if you’re making progress, so why do you let the scale bully you and taunt you. Maybe it’s because you aren’t aware of the other options and really, how well they work, providing a more accurate idea of how you’re doing on your fitness program. The scale doesn’t also show the real progress you made, which can be devastating and the reason to use several techniques.
At RCF in Houston, TX, clients get the best information to help them look fantastic. You’ll find some great workout routines online that include exercises for a perky butt. I’m going to go through a couple here, to give you an idea of what exercises work, but to get the best direction, watching it being performed online is the best. You’ll get the exercises discussed here and many, many more. Our 21-day challenge has lots of exercises to tone.
When you go on a diet or change your diet to include healthier foods, depending on what type of diet you choose, the body makes changes. To find what happens to the body on a diet, we’ll just include a diet that changes from junk food to healthy food, because that’s where you see the most beneficial changes. At your first healthier meal on the first day, your body responds.
At RC Fitness in Houston, TX, we focus on finding ways to boost not only your physical well-being, but your mental well-being as well. While looking good is fabulous and can make you feel better, if you suffer from issues like depression and anxiety, it’s not enough. There’s good news. Many of the things you do to help your body can also improve your mental health. You can reduce anxiety through exercise and the right diet. Studies show the right balance of gut bacteria can improve depression and anxiety, but to get that healthy balance, you need to feed the bacteria the right food. That’s where prebiotics enter the picture.
Most people don’t realize how much science is necessary for a great workout. You can do all the spot training you want and you won’t get the results you want. Do you want to lose weight? Don’t bother with spot exercises—also called isolation exercises, do compound and core strength training instead. They burn more fat, while building muscle tissue. The more muscle tissue you have, the higher your metabolism is. That’s because muscle tissue requires more energy—calories—to maintain than fat tissue requires.
Many of the goals clients have at Reggie C Fitness in Houston, TX, is to get rid of muffin tops, have a flatter belly or get six-pack abs. If it were only doing spot exercises, it would be easy, but the answer is more complicated. No matter how toned your abs are, it won’t matter if you have a layer of fat covering them. I can’t emphasize that enough. Spot training builds muscle tissue, but doesn’t remove the fat from just that area. When you lose weight, you lose it from all areas of the body, not just one spot.
If you’ve ever worked out hard or gone on a day’s run, you probably feel fabulous, and maybe even relaxed when you’re done. There are several reasons exercising, like running, can feel so good. Running can help relieve stress, which is the first reason. When you’re under stress, your body creates hormones that make changes so you can run away or fight. When you run, you burn off those hormones and your body goes back to a relaxed state. The changes were important for early man, when stressful situations were life threatening. That’s normally not the case today.
RC Fitness in Houston, TX, one of the top priorities of many clients is to get rid of belly fat. You have to first educate yourself on what causes belly fat, since preventing it is part of the struggle. First, your diet is a huge contributor to belly fat—visceral fat. Sugar and sugary foods are high on the list of promoting fat around the mid section. Whether you drink it or eat it, if it effects on your body. In fact, high-fructose corn syrup is one of the leading causes—and it’s in everything, since it’s cheap. Several studies show that high-fructose corn syrup reduced metabolic rate, decreased insulin sensitivity and increased belly fat.
I get a lot of questions from clients at RC Fitness in Houston, TX, about the benefits of eating organic. It does cost more to buy organic food and the first question is always whether it’s that much healthier to justify the cost. There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that when it comes to fresh produce, you don’t have to buy everything organic. However, the bad news is that most of the produce and other foods you buy will actually cost more and there’s a reason. The first is that it costs more to grow. There are also costs in getting certified as organic, fewer subsidies, no chemical intervention to speed growth and additional costs of getting the produce to market.