Resistance Training: Stepping Up the Game

What is resistance training?

Resistance training has “two different meanings – a broader meaning that refers to any training that uses a resistance to the force of muscular contraction or strength training, and elastic or hydraulic resistance, which refers to a specific type of strength training that uses elastic or hydraulic tension to provide this resistance.”

According to the American Heart Association, the following are just some of the documented benefits of resistance training.

1. Muscle fiber adaptations
2. Strength adaptations
3. Long-term changes in strength
4. Bone tissue adaptations
5. Body composition adaptations
6. Heart rate adaptations
7. Blood pressure adaptations
8. Heart size adaptations
9. Lipoprotein and lipid adaptations
10. Glucose metabolism adaptations

Not only will resistance training improve your cardiovascular health and metabolism, you will also be more prepared to go into a game and achieve peak performance.

Resistance training will give the extra energy and the needed boost to go the extra mile, the last two minutes, or the last leg – achieving peak performance!

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