| Weight- training is equally useful for both | | | | women develop sleek contours. Plus, |
| men and women. You can begin at the age of | | | | strengthening the muscles in the chest |
| sixteen or even when you are middle-aged or | | | | enhances their breast-line. And hips and |
| older. After the age of thirty, however, you | | | | thighs - the woman's eternal flab spots - get |
| should give yourself a complete medical | | | | streamlined and slim. |
| checkÂup and consult your doctor about the | | | | |
| test- results, and then with his consent, go | | | | Aerobics give you the basic healthy |
| in for it. Again, if you are highly myopic, | | | | foundation you need - by strengthening your |
| check with a vitreoÂretinal surgeon before | | | | cardiovascular system and banishing fat from |
| training with weights. | | | | your body. Abdominals flatten your tummy and |
| | | | prevent back - and other Âproblems. |
| Overall, weight-training is a personality | | | | Weight-training is the icing on this fitness |
| enhancer for both sexes. Men become more | | | | cake. Aerobics stimulate your muscles and |
| masculine. We need not write on this aspect | | | | bones. Weight-training further strengthens |
| as it is an established fact. What is less | | | | and maintains them - particularly in your |
| recognised or not understood at all is how it | | | | arms, back and shoulders. |
| helps women. The fact it that weight-training | | | | |
| fills females with a feline grace and | | | | It is also an ace up the post-menopausal |
| vitality where you move around with a light, | | | | sleeve. For this is the time when women could |
| lithe step. It bestows a strength that shores | | | | be afflicted by osteoporosis - when their |
| up your self-confidence - where you develop | | | | bones become more brittle and fragile due to |
| an athlete's sense of powered relaxation. | | | | lowering hormone levels. Weight-training acts |
| Which means that you enjoy a quiet victorious | | | | as a preventive, it makes the bone thicker |
| feeling, knowing that behind that look of | | | | and heavier and re-organises its internal |
| languorous stillness lies an inexhaustible | | | | structure to resist any stress. Of course, |
| supply of power ready to surge when required. | | | | simultaneously, women with weak bones should |
| | | | also take calcium daily Âabout 1500 mg per |
| Far from 'looking manly', women become more | | | | day. |
| feminine. Where men sport bulging biceps, | | | | |