LIFTING WEIGHTS: NOT JUST ANOTHER FAD
| In recent years, women and men looking for self-improvement, living
in balance, feeling young, exuberant, and joyful have been discovering
weight training as an important part of a healthy lifestyle. Women
especially understand the connection between weight-bearing exercise
and longevity, since research has shown that weight training can offset
bone loss after menopause by increasing bone density. What is less well known is that each muscle has a direct link to the correct functioning of an organ in the body.
Just by actively training with weights, women and men can help get their system healthier and protect themselves against diseases commonly believed to be an inevitable part of the aging process. |
The story often goes like this...
EVOLUTION OF THE WEIGHT-TRAINING NEOPHYTE
Act 1: The
decision
That does it! I'm going to work out on a regular basis! We take action...
Act 2: The
honeymoon
We find the perfect fitness center and shop for classes and services offered. We chat with others over the benefits of this nutritional program or that class and begin to throw together our routine. Since working out builds muscle, we begin to look better and feel more fit. After awhile, we hit the wall...
Act 3: Reality
sets in
We get frustrated and confused, might start feeling sore and even experience overuse injuries. Now it’s time to consult with the professionals and find out about our club’s pay-as-you-go services such as personal trainers. For a fee, we learn that we can hire someone to provide us with a program of exercises that will target specific muscle groups systematically, someone who will meet us at the gym, stand by and goad us into action by making us perform...
Act 4: Damsel in
distress
A personal trainer to the rescue! We decide that a personal trainer is exactly what we need to discipline our efforts, so we suck in our breath and hire an expert in fitness to take charge of us. We conscientiously put in our time, pay our trainer to make us do our reps and sets, and assume that we are taking care of ourselves. Many of us will stop here because we are patient, diligent and busy. But some will begin to wonder if it's really worth it and start to slack off...
Act 5: The roller coaster ride and our demise
Maybe our bodies aren’t quite turning out as we had dreamed, or maybe we don’t shed the weight we originally hoped we would lose by working out. But we accept it, at least for awhile, until life gets too busy and complicated. Then working out becomes another item on the “to do” list of an overwhelmed, overextended person who now has to lift weights and log 2-3 hours in the gym doing aerobics to feel good about herself. In the case of a person with low self-esteem, the purpose of going to the gym transforms itself into earning the approval of the trainer. As women, when we aren’t doing well and can’t achieve the level of performance demanded of us, we often feel like failures, even if the trainer says it’s ok to slack off a bit. The guilt begins to set in, we feel more stressed than before and beat ourselves up for the money we are spending only to find ourselves worse off than ever. We’ll probably quit that scene, forget exercise and working out until things get worst and we repeat the whole cycle at another gym with another trainer.
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