The benefits and drawbacks of weightlifting practice

April 19, 2023
In the gym, you can often see the figure of the weightlifting exercise, practice weightlifting is to bring like exercise muscle. Enhance the role of strength, but there are certain safety hazards. Here we will learn about the benefits and disadvantages of weightlifting.

What are the benefits of practicing weightlifting

Increase strength

Weightlifting can exercise the legs, waist, wrist and hand muscles, so that the muscles become stronger and enhance strength. And in weightlifting is weightlifting training with lighter weights, with faster movements to complete more sets, will quickly improve the speed and strength level, so that your physique and strength to the next level.

Increase Fast Muscle Fibers

Fast muscle fibers, also known as called white muscle fibers, belong to the motor motor nerve unit, especially when performing fast explosive power to get exercise. Long-term low-intensity exercises will make fast muscle fibers into slow muscle fibers. Weight training, on the other hand, can keep your fast muscle fibers, so that they continue to grow.

Increase body coordination

Weightlifting exercises require different muscle groups in your body to work together, so it can effectively improve your body coordination. The further increase in coordination will allow you to stay flexible and avoid injuries during your training.

Enhance cardiovascular function

Weight lifting exercises can reduce the level of "bad cholesterol" and increase the level of "good cholesterol" in the body, while also relieving high blood pressure and reducing the chance of diabetes. It is most effective for middle-aged and elderly patients with cardiovascular disease.

Fat Burning

Through weight training, most muscle cells will accelerate their metabolism, and this process will be maintained longer than any other traditional training methods. This means: when you sit at home after training and rest, the fat is still burning.

What are the disadvantages of weightlifting

Affects development

When the body is immature, the cartilage between the joints, if not the right amount of weightlifting, will cause the cartilage to be subjected to heavy pressure, preventing the normal growth of bone, affecting the development of height.

Easy to strain muscles

When lifting weights, long practice weightlifting or forcing yourself to lift weights will easily cause strains on the muscles and ligaments of the hands and other sports injuries.

High pressure on the lumbar spine

When lifting weights, the pressure on the lumbar region is relatively high. Long-term excessive weight bearing or long-term lumbar poor posture, is the lumbar muscles, ligaments lasting in a state of tension, resulting in lumbar soreness or swelling, the lumbar easy to produce damage.
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