{"id":114,"date":"2016-01-05T21:38:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T21:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myepitchat.com\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2026-08-26T12:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:56:13","slug":"weight-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/05\/weight-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To improve your health, and to start your new year off on the right foot, consider taking up weight lifting. This may help you complete a goal on your bucket list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why take up weightlifting?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It allows you to build your strength quickly. This is especially true when you first start weight lifting. When you start you can increase the amount you lift per exercise from 5 to 20 pounds per week. \u00a0Your gains in the beginning will simply amaze you.<\/li>\n<li>It will help you lose weight. Weightlifting converts fat to muscle and will give you energy.<\/li>\n<li>Increased strength improves your ability to perform\u00a0perform your cardio vascular \u00a0workout. The stronger you are the more you can do.<\/li>\n<li>Weightlifting works your ligaments and tendons which strengthens your overall muscle and reduce the risk of injury.<\/li>\n<li>Weightlifting is critical to increasing bone density which in turn will reduce your chance of losing bone mass and facing\u00a0osteoporosis.<\/li>\n<li>Weightlifting firms up your muscle and makes you look better.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How do you get started?<\/p>\n<p>I suggest that you take a look at the site called Strong lifts 5 BY 5. This site is run by a gentleman name Medhi who espouses Reg Park&#8217;s 5 by 5 workout.\u00a0Reg Park was the person\u00a0Arnold Schwarzenegger looked up to when he started lifting. Here is the link for the website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stronglifts.com\/5x5\/\">StrongLIfts 5&#215;5 workout site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a woman, I also recommend checking out this article in Women&#8217;s Health. It provides reasons why\u00a0ou should start lifting weights today:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenshealthmag.com\/fitness\/weight-exercises-women\">12 reasons to start lifting weights today<\/a>. \u00a0Here is another article from Women&#8217;s Health to show you some of the best exercises to perform:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenshealthmag.com\/fitness\/lift-to-get-lean-workout?cid=OB-_-WH-_-ARR\">5 Weight-Lifting Moves That&#8217;ll Help You Drop a Size (Or More)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Lifting and now go achieve that Weightlifting Goal!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To improve your health, and to start your new year off on the right foot, consider taking up weight lifting. This may help you complete a goal on your bucket list. Why take up weightlifting? It allows you to build your strength quickly. This is especially true when you first start weight lifting. When you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/05\/weight-training\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weight Training<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}