Benefits of Resistance Training
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Training with resistance (as a complement to aerobic exercise) increases lean muscle mass, raises metabolism, sculpts the body, improves posture, and strengthens the bones.
Resistance training then provides these benefits so long as it is done along with aerobic exercise (LeMond 2015, 5):
- Increases in lean muscle mass
- Increased metabolism (or “primed¨ metabolic rate)
- Sculpted body, albeit this is largely cosmetic
- Posture improvement, which benefits the skeleton
- Bone strengthening (as a reaction to skeletal microfractures)
Physical fitness as bodily degrees of freedom
A lot of these benefits are primarily kinesiological or myological benefits, but such benefits are important for expanding the body’s degrees of freedom. If fitness is related to the expansion of bodily degrees of freedom, then physical fitness is an inherently liberatory experience for the mind. This is distinct from the definition of fitness as borrowed from evolutionary biology, which simply corresponds to likelihood of survival.
There are different kinds of resistance training, of which the following are just a few examples (Ibid):
- Circuit training
- Pilates
- Kettlebell training
As we know, resistance training as well as aerobic exercise are part of the BRATS fitness protocol system.
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bibliography
- “Becoming a BEAST.” In The Science of Fitness: Power, Performance, and Endurance, 1–8. Waltham, MA: Academic Press, 2015.