Taiwan Province Province used to call it weight-bearing exercise, which is a kind of exercise training aimed at increasing muscle strength and volume. Using the contraction of skeletal muscle tissue in different parts (centripetal contraction or centrifugal contraction) to generate strength to resist gravity (usually refers to the weight or resistance of dumbbells, barbells and other instruments), so that muscles can be exercised.

Different from weightlifting and bodybuilding, weight training is not an independent sport, but a basic element of different athletes' training. Weight training is an accurate sports science, in which different elements, including negative weight, movement quality, repetition times, number of groups and even rest time between trainings, will affect the training results.

Benefits of weight-bearing exercise:

Jogging with load will make people consume a lot of body fat, speed up heart rate, improve oxygen consumption and muscle energy. Weight-bearing jogging can stimulate human bones reasonably, which is beneficial to the injection of calcium, making bones stronger and slowing down the loss of bone calcium.

Weight-bearing jogging can exercise a person's muscles, physical strength, aerobic exercise ability and explosive power for a long time. You can do it three or five times a week without much exercise. In addition to jogging with weight, you can also complete the training purpose according to running stairs and jumping flies. In the case of training, we should pay attention to the sense of rhythm, inhale and do what we can according to our own situation.

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Baidu encyclopedia-weight training