Sometimes injuries are inevitable especially when you are training with weights. However although weight training is risky, it has many benefits. Some of the benefits include; It helps reduce the adverse effects of aging such as osteoporosis thus you will be able to enjoy your old age, it helps enhance your strength and flexibility because it leads to an increase in muscle size, weight training also help you boost your metabolism because it leads to an increase in lean muscle tissues, weight training leads to loss of fat as a result of increase in body metabolism, weight training also improves you posture because it increase the ratio of muscles to fat, if you are an athlete then weight training will help you boost your performance, weight training is also useful in boosting your psychological health. If you carefully consider all the above benefits ...

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Q:  Why should I do exercises to develop my tendon and ligament strength and what ones are best? A: Developing tendon strength is vital once you start lifting serious weight. Tendons are connective tissues which join the end of a muscle to bone. Ligaments, which are cord-like fibers that bind bones together at joints are also important in lifting. When we get under the heavy iron, we don’t want proportionately weak tendons or ligaments to be the limiting factors that halt our progress or, even worse, cause a rupture. That could happen if we do not consciously work to improve the strength of our tendons and ligaments. Now, tendons and ligaments will strengthen concurrently with the muscle, but only up to a certain point. When we graduate to the three, four and five hundred pound clubs in the bench press, squat and deadlift, ...

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