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Guest Author: Kyle Oxenham


The common concept of weight training is that it is done to get really big muscles. What can people possibly get if they allow weight training classes for high school? Will they end up with high school kids that look like wrestlers? Or worse, end up with super buff high school kids that might wrestle their teachers if they fail an exam? How creepy!

Getting extra large muscles is not the only thing about weight training. You can use weight training to have larger muscles. You can stop or stick to your regimen without increasing your repetitions or weights if you are satisfied with your size. Weight training for high school can easily become part of the curriculum such as swimming and wrestling. These sports are equally as dangerous as the others.

But mind you, weight training can be one of the safest exercises around. Weight trainers just need to carefully follow instructions to avoid any injuries. This will not be a problem to highschool students since coaches will be around to observe the students progress. Speaking of progress, weight training in highschool will stick to easier routines and lesser weights. For short, beginners! It will be foolish to let highschool students jump into an advanced class because weight training is like climbing a ladder, you have to be at the bottom before you finally reach the top.

Aside from getting toned muscles, weight training will teach students more about self discipline, endurance and patience. Why these three? Self discipline because the exercise has to be done properly. Students have to follow the correct body posture. Even spreading the weight all over your body can be called cheating. So, if an exercise is for a particular muscle that should be the only muscle thats worked on and nothing else. The exercise is designed to tests your strengths and limits. Sometimes it is near impossible to complete the exercise as you reach the end. Students endurance will be tested. Weight training will also teach them patience because larger muscles do not just grow overnight.

Can weight training in high school teach them more? Yes! Weight training will inculcate these three values in students but there are more that they will find out for themselves. Once classes are done or the students have graduated, they will find out that, not only did they undergo physical changes because of weight training but they also had changes in the inside that they can bring with them and use it in life.



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Guest Author: Jim Suzak


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These are some of the best muscle building weight training tips that a beginner can use to gain muscle. By following these guidelines, you can get started on the right track to help get the most out of your muscle building weight training routine.

A warm up of ten to fifteen minutes should be sufficient. It does not matter what you do to warm up, you just need to get your heart pumping. Also, you should move all parts of your body to loosen up. Cardio types of exercises are excellent for warm up. By doing this you will prevent injuries to the muscles by increasing your core body temperature.

Guest Author: Alien


Weight training is a type of strength training that enable the person to develop good muscles. This is regarded as the number one athletic activity that is used too build muscle, lose fat and also get a fit body. There are various equipments that are used in the process of weight lifting and this includes bars and collars, weight racks, dumbbells and other weight lifting accessories as well. Different types of equipments are used to build up different muscles. Weight training is helpful in both the ways as for example the skinny persons can get muscles while the fatty people can loose fat and get a fit body.

Difference between weight training and strength training

Weight training has no resemblances with bodybuilding, power lifting or weight lifting. These are all different types of exercises but weight training is the part of training, which is usually recommended for athletes. But weight training has the remarkable similarities with strength training where in both the cases same exercise steps are followed as tempo, reps or sets, etc. Both of them help in increasing strength but these two also differs a lot. Strength training actually includes all types of exercises that involves in increasing muscle strength while weight training is only one type of strength training.

The movement in weight training takes an important part. If the movement is slow while doing weight training, it can be considered as the most dependable types of exercise. But if it is done in a wrong or improper way it can cause injury to the person. So it is advisable that the beginners should always take care about the speed and only concentrates on slow movement. The individual should also take care that they are getting any professional’s assistance to avoid the mishaps or accidents. Before starting any weight training the person should consult a doctor to know that whether he or she is able to do the exercise or not. If the person were unable, the doctor would prescribe any strength training as ideal for the situation.

Weight training is preceded by twenty minutes aerobic exercises, after which the muscle of the person gets stretched and he is ready for the weight training. The exercise should continue in the same pace and that too in a controlled manner otherwise some disaster will happen and it can be resulted into damaged muscle. There should also be rest period between each ad every weight trainings as well.



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