Why weights?

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  • bernied262
    bernied262 Posts: 882 Member
    I also have a hurt wrist, so hard for me to do TOO heavy of weights. :(

    I have arthritis in my wrists (diagnosed as a teenager) and hyper mobility syndrome. I lift, PB for dead lifts is 95kg. I only really started doing the heavy lifting about 2 months ago and the change has been massive. below is a pic to give you some idea, bottom pic was taken at the beginning of Sept, the top pic was taken on Oct 28th.

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    Speak to your doc (or even your trainer), and ask them abouy how you can do weight training to help strengthen your wrists.

    OP – give lifting a try, stick with it for at least 8 weeks and then look back at the difference it makes.
  • Yoga_Fitness
    Yoga_Fitness Posts: 13
    Weights are important because they work different things than cardio. One is an aerobic exercise (cardio) and one is anaerobic (weights) and thus you derive different benefits from doing each one. Keep in mind that while both increase your endurance and your body's efficacy, they do so in different ways. First, you're going to burn more calories while performing cardio, but when you lift weights, you have a continuous bout of time where you continue to burn calories AFTER your workout. Additionally, when you have more muscle mass, your resting metabolic rate is higher, which means you burn more calories just sitting there. Depending on your cardio, you also might not be targeting all your muscle groups (tons of people run, but many don't do rowing to target arms or burpees which target everything). With cardio, you risk eating into your lean muscle mass, while lifting weights will help retain this muscle. In short, weight lifting fills all the gaps that cardio doesn't address, and is the perfect yin to its yang.

    This was such a great explanation! Thank you!
  • QuilterInVA
    QuilterInVA Posts: 672 Member
    If you don't do weights, you can look fabulous but still be fat inside. You need to burn fat and not muscle while losing weight and cardio can't do it.
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    Can someone explain WHY weights are good for you? Other than the fact that they burn more calories afterwards!

    They don't. There is no difference in "after burn" between weightlifting and any other form of exercise. There are lots of reasons to do weights, if someone wants to, but that isn't one of them.

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