Beginning Weight Training (39)
Getting into weight training is easier than you might imagine and need not take much time or expense. Review our tips and information before you start this productive and healthy form of exercise.
Weight Training Basics (50)
Whether you're looking to build an impressive body or just want to get your weight under control -- or maybe you've heard that training with weights can help your arthritis -- here you can find some basic information about weight training.
Benefits of Weight Training (6)
Some of the most recent research has uncovered surprising benefits for health and wellbeing from weight training well beyond building a great body, although you might just get that too. Here at About.com Weight Training we'll show you what weights can do for your life -- and perhaps your love as well.
Succeeding with Weights (29)
Although starting weight training does not require much expense or time, getting the results you want is a matter of drive, planning and commitment. Like anything else, your success with weight training will be defined by the quality of advice and how you implement it. Here is where you can find both.
Nutrition for Weights (25)
Ever wonder what the best diet is for bodybuilding and weight training? Opinion varies, yet the sports scientists have studied this and, you know what? -- it's not too different from a regular healthy diet except that the devil is in the detail. Get the detail here, without the devil.
Weights for Special Groups (10)
We tend to think of people that are into weight training as either the bodybuilding type or the sportsperson with an emphasis on building big and powerful bodies. That's a fact, but weight training is used for many other purposes, providing benefit for particular groups of people such as the elderly, the handicapped and the ill or rehabilitating.
Techniques and Strategies (30)
Weight training and strength training has hundreds of exercises and variations of exercises to choose from and more seem to arrive on the scene each year with novel equipment and machines. However, the standard weight training techniques and strategies are time-honored training methods that you need to know about in order to take advantage of the exercises available.
Weight Training Equipment (7)
Weight training uses a range of standard equipment such as free weights, racks, benches, steps, fitness balls, medicine balls, treadmills and various machines such as leg extension, triceps push-down and assorted cable machines. Here you can find out how they work and how to use them.
Sport Specific Programs (16)
Various sports enlist muscles selectively to achieve a competitive result. Even different positions in a team favor particular muscle groups. A quarterback does not have the same requirements as a linebacker. Designing weight training programs to emphasize the needs of a particular sport or player is the focus of this section.
Weight Training for Health (14)
Prevention is the key to health. Weight and strength training assists us prevent chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease by improving fitness and controlling weight and blood pressure. Weight training may also help people with arthritis, multiple sclerosis and ageing afflictions such as loss of muscle mass. Check out the following resources.
Physical Therapy (8)
Weight training exercises are often an important part of physical rehabilitation. Explore these resources for using weights in injury and illness recovery.
Fat Loss Weight Training (18)
Pumping iron builds muscle and revs up the metabolism -- two things that can help metabolize fat and achieve that ideal body weight. See how it works with these tips.
Competition Weightlifting (6)
Weightlifting is a sport with a history dating back many centuries. In modern times, weightlifting competition is either Olympic weightlifting or Powerlifting. Check out these profiles and resources.
Exercise Gallery (52)
This resource includes images of weight training exercise demonstrations so you can see how they are done.
