Why Women Should Strength Train
The DVCC Podcast
Welcome all to the DVCC Podcast. In this weeks episode we discuss "Why Women Should Strength Train" with Stephen Gray, the founder of the DVCC.
Join us to find out why strength training is so commonly brushed over for women, and why this can't continue to be the case!
Hello and welcome back to Life Long Fitness, where we help you navigate your forties and beyond.
Many of our clients all came to us with a lot of the same stories that people and especially women are told and have been told for for years and years and years. That is strength is for men and and and it's not for women, which we wholly disagree with. We always have done actually. We I believe, and I personally I've got a great amount of satisfaction when I've helped ladies find love for improving their strength and for getting confident.
For lifting weights and really embracing it.
And but I want to highlight is I do think a lot of the time people don't focus on improving their strength or don't think it's important is because they don't necessarily understand why it's important or what it affects.
And so I just wanted to point out a couple of reasons that as a man, but especially as a woman, as you move past 40, you do want to be improving your strength. You do want to be focusing on it is a major part to health. And just to highlight a couple of the reasons
The first is just that everyday, daily activities are easier. You carry your shopping, you can do your daily tasks, easier dealing with family, work, everything is easier when you are stronger and you have more confidence. Strength and weakness of muscles is a major reason for pain. So what a lot of people don't realise is a weak muscle often is a sore muscles, a tight muscle is a painful muscle.
So by improving your strength, you reduce your risk of injury. So like I said, a lot of injuries are actually caused by weaknesses in muscles. And so people have come over the years saying, oh, I don't want to get injured, Well actually, if you do nothing and don't exercise, don't improve your strength and your body, you are far more likely to have pain and to be injured and something that is thankfully becoming more wide, widely talked about.
But it's... you have a less you have a less risk of anxiety and depression. I’ll actually read an outcome of a study because I wanted to highlight that it is science backed that a sixteen week strength programme, the participants had less depression and more self confidence. So, I mean, like you said, this plays out across the DVCC’s all the time.
Once you start feeling that you are taking control of your health and your strength and you can see improvements, your self-confidence goes through the roof and therefore anxiety and other different things, depression go down. And so if anything that's such a great reason to start exercising, to start improving the strength, because you will just simply feel better. And then obviously the risk of osteoporosis, type two diabetes, it will go down with strength training, particularly in females.
One weight training session a week and one one time lifting and resistance and trying to improve your strength, a week is all you need. You don't need to be going five times a week. You can improve your strength. You can make huge changes in your lifestyle, your health and how you feel.
being such a huge part of the last 15 years at the DVCC, helping and get confidence in fitness.
And I think you will know now that improving the strength is important for ladies as it is important for a man, and the most important is how you feel and the confidence you have.
It can make a huge difference to your life.
Thank you very much. Thank you so much once again for joining us on the Life Long Fitness podcast. Hopefully you found some value in today's episode. If you would like to continue the conversation, please do follow us on social media. We are on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, almost anywhere you can think of at the DVCC
Hope to see you there soon.
