Benefits of weight training

• Increased muscular strength and endurance - by exposing your muscular system to loads greater than those experienced in everyday life our muscles are forced to grow and get stronger. As a result every day activities, from doing the gardening to taking out the recycling, become easier.
• Increased fat burning potential and increased lean body mass - when losing weight through a fad diet or even aerobic exercise alone, your body will lose muscle as well as fat. The decrease in muscle has a direct effect on the body's metabolism and its ability to burn fat.

In fact, you may be turning your body into a fat storing machine and may be likely to put even more weight back on. By including weight training in your training program you can increase your muscle mass and therefore increase the amount of energy you can burn and in turn decrease the amount of fat you store.

Exercising for fitness overload and recovery

Our personal trainers and fitness studios believe developing your fitness level requires sufficient overload and recovery to achieve adaptation. Many people train hard, too often each week. As a result, they cannot recover sufficiently, which actually causes their fitness level to fall.

As a general guide, we recommend that you perform no more than 3 hard sessions per week. Any other sessions performed should be done at a low to moderate intensity. These sessions are useful for recovery purposes.