Build Muscle Strength to Improve Your Health

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While many people focus on the way their body looks, you may not know that when you build muscle and strength, you also improve your health a great deal.  You may associate cardio workouts with good heart health and disease prevention, but strength training is also important.

When you build muscle, you actually increase your metabolism.  That means you burn more calories even when you’re at rest.  If you need to lose weight, strength training can be as beneficial if not more beneficial in some cases, than cardio exercise.

As you build muscle, you’re building metabolically active tissue that will burn fat for you.  That means that while you’re adding more lean muscle tissue to your body, you’re burning more fat.  And this helps to lower your risk for heart disease, stroke, and cancer.