Weightlifting dates back to the 1896 Athens Olympic Games. As of today, it is widely recognized as an effective fitness training method. It is a common type of fitness training for developing strength and skeletal muscles.

There are so many types of weight lifting, like dumbbell squat, deadlift, bench press, and many others. Weight lifting helps reduce fat, increase lean muscle mass, and burn calories more effectively. There are so many benefits of weight lifting that can improve your health.

1. MAKES YOU STRONGER: This is definitely an obvious one. Weight lifting helps strengthen and tone your muscles by contracting them against a resisting force.

It helps improve your performance, extend life span, and reduce aging, which requires strength, power, speed, and endurance.

• BURNS CALORIES EFFICIENTLY:  Weight lifting helps boost your metabolism in two ways.

Firstly, building muscle increases your metabolic rate. Muscles are more metabolically efficient than fat mass, allowing you to burn more calories at rest.

Secondly, research shows that your metabolic rate is increased up to 72 hours after lifting weights. This means you are still burning calories hours after your workout.

• PROTECTS BONES AND MUSCLE MASS: Weight lifting puts pressure on the bones, which causes your body to produce more bone tissue. As a result, your bones become stronger and denser. Just 30 minutes twice a week of high-intensity and impact training can improve your bone density, structure, and strength.

• BOOSTS YOUR CONFIDENCE: Weight lifting has been shown to improve self-confidence, reduce anxiety, and ease depression. Although it can be challenging to stay motivated to go to the gym, the benefits outweigh the initial difficulty.

• BUILDS THE BRAIN: Heavy weights develop more than just muscles. Lifting weights increases the production of many hormones, including IGF-1, which helps stimulate connections in the brain and boost cognitive function. 

Even though weight training has many benefits, it also has drawbacks such as muscle and joint injuries from lifting too heavy. It can also lead to initial weight gain and stress fractures.

So I hope you learn something from this and I hope you fit that gym soon. GOODLUCK!