By Team eLifestyle Fitness and Lifestyle Expert Robb Armstrong
In last week’s Fit Tip you learned why cutting your carbs too low could actually stall your weight-loss efforts.
This week we give you a few of the main benefits of adding free weights into your exercise and fitness routine to help you tone up while shedding excess winter flab.
When it comes to effective training, throwing some free weights – dumbbells and barbells – into the mix will have you making great strides in shaping and toning up for a summer-ready body. So shed your fear of free weights to shed more pounds! Here’s how …
3 Key Benefits of Using Free Weights
1. Unlike a weighted machine that is fixed in one position, free-weight training is effective in recruiting additional stabilizer muscles to provide balance and coordination during any chosen exercise. These are important elements needed not only in our day-to-day movements as we age, but are also required for various sports, fitness interests, and recreational activities as well.
2. Weight machines keep the weights steady and moving in the proper plane of motion. With free weights, it’s up to you to maintain proper form in order to engage your muscles to their maximum. For example, a biceps curl is going to feel more natural and use more muscles in your torso (to support the weight) than if you did a seated biceps curl on a machine where the machine does some of the work and has you leaning against it for leverage.
3. There are a variety of exercises that you can do with dumbbells and barbells that you can’t do with machines. For example, if you’re creative, squats, lunges, step-ups, and many upper-body exercises can be performed with free weights. What’s more, you can simply contact us at www.elifestyle.ca for some personal training advice to gain more exercise knowledge.
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