Exercise is beneficial for people of all ages. Men and women, and even children, can improve their health and well being by undertaking a fitness program. The earlier in life that we start exercising the more likely we are going to be healthy in our later years.

Resistance training involves the use of free weights and/or machines to stimulate muscle growth and also to help burn fat. Muscles burn fat, so it goes without saying that the bigger your muscles the more fat they are going to burn. Not only will you build a stronger fitter body from resistance training but you will also help your body to become leaner at the same time.

Resistance training, through the use of weights, machines, or your own body weight, forces the cells of the body to adapt to the extra loads that are being applied. The cells are broken down during this exercise process and become stronger when they are given time to recover. Unless there is sufficient time for the body to recover from this resistance, it will become over trained and consequently there will be a stop, or even a reduction in the benefits that one might achieve.