Resistance training is something I'm starting to research as a way of fighting arthritis. I know that resistance training is a method used by doctors and physical therapists to help sports stars that have been injured as well as athletes who want to increase body strength and physical fitness and stamina.
My biggest question is, "Does resistance training help control pain and stiffness of arthritis?" I mean, I'm not looking to get buff, and I certainly am past the age where I'm going to enter any bathing suit competitions! (Although I wouldn't mind looking great when I'm laying on the beach at Cannes, Nice or St. Tropez working on my tan!)
The type of resistance training that I'm most interested in will involve activities that use my own body weight to work out my muscles. It's important to me that I learn how to do resistance training (also called strength training and weight training) the right way - I don't want to end up hurting myself, or making things worse.
You might think that resistance training makes your body grow bigger muscles. But according to my research, this is actually not true. Resistance training is about increasing your body's strength, not its size.
One of the things I like best about starting a resistance training program is that it can be done by people of all levels of physical fitness, and it doesn't require a lot of expensive or bulky equipment, and it can be done in the privacy of my home! (I hate going to the gym and working out next to thin, gorgeous women who look like they've just stepped out the pages of Vogue and never break a sweat, no matter what they're doing.)
The goal of resistance training is to build and tone the muscles, giving the body a better look, and making it stronger and more flexible. (Right now I say whoo hoo! to flexibility, you know?)
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