It builds muscle mass, improves bone density and is good for your heart, mood and sleep. But how easy is it to get started at 49, when you haven’t entered a gym for decades?
s a middle-aged woman, you would have to be living under a rock not to know you should be strength training. The headlines just keep coming, ever more persuasive. “Lifting heavy” builds muscle mass and
Why use actual weights and not just your body weight? After all, mine will be much more than we’re able to lift in a gym.
I do my next session at a different Better gym – the nearest one to home, a five-minute cycle away. I force my younger son to join me and I’m glad I do: in a strange environment full of forbidding black machinery, it’s great being able to ask him where the leg press is and what I should be doing before we go our separate ways . When we get home, he tells me he couldn’t see me doing anything obviously wrong: high praise.
Rewarding feels like the right word. I’m starting to experiment with increasing the weight on some of my exercises and it’s so satisfying when I manage, like winning a game . Am I … having fun?Social media has twigged I’m on a weights journey and is urging me to buy fancy dumbbells and offering advice on how to make my bench press more effective or why I should be doing weighted “glute bridges”.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Recall for lollies sold at IKEA stores across multiple statesThe jelly candy contains undeclared allergens that pose a potential danger to some people.
Read more »
From Korea to Australia: The journey behind Australia’s first hangover jelly7NEWS brings you the latest local news from Australia and around the world. Stay up to date with all of the breaking sport, politics, entertainment, finance, weather and business headlines. Today's news, live updates & all the latest breaking stories from 7NEWS.
Read more »
Amendment to allow Victorian medicinal cannabis users to drive passes upper houseBoth major parties have supported an amendment so Victorians with a valid prescription for medicinal cannabis will no longer automatically lose their licence.
Read more »
Elections for Victoria’s upper house could be overhauled under proposals to stamp out ‘preference whispering’Labor-led inquiry considering six possible options, including adopting Senate system and changing quotas
Read more »
Search underway for body at Upper Colo property, northwest of Sydney7NEWS brings you the latest local news from Australia and around the world. Stay up to date with all of the breaking sport, politics, entertainment, finance, weather and business headlines. Today's news, live updates & all the latest breaking stories from 7NEWS.
Read more »
South Australia’s upper house narrowly rejects ‘Trumpian’ bill to wind back abortion careLegislation to force women seeking a later termination to be induced, deliver the baby alive, and keep it or adopt it out, defeated by 10 votes to nine
Read more »