It's Your Health!

Weight training helps keep you and your bones strong!

Another bonus:
The extra muscle you build helps burn more calories - even when you are doing absolutely nothing or when you are asleep.

Muscle Fact One:

• Muscle is like a car engine. It burns gas - or calories - and provides the power to get you from one place to another. The bigger the "muscle engine", the more fuel you burn. In other words, the larger the muscle-mass, the more calories your body burns at work and at rest.

Fact Two:

• It is possible to increase your metabolic rate by at least 7-percent after six months of intense weight training. This means if you are eating 2,000 calories a day to maintain your weight, you would burn an additional 140 calories each day. At this rate, you would lose over seven pounds of fat in six months.

Fact Three:

• Every added pound of lean muscle burns an additional 30 to 50 calories each day.

Fact Four:

• Exercisers can add three to six pounds of muscle in six months of weight training.