Sep 19, 2020 22:00:00

Why is muscle training as important to your health as aerobic exercise?

Exercise is generally encouraged, such as 'regular exercise is a source of health,' but 'exercise' in this context often refers to aerobic exercise such as walking, jogging, and cycling. But in reality, 'muscle training' is just as important as aerobic exercise for good health, researchers at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia explain.

Muscle-strengthening Exercise Epidemiology: a New Frontier in Chronic Disease Prevention | Sports Medicine --Open | Full Text

https://sportsmedicine-open.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40798-020-00271-w

Lift your game: the undervalued role of strength training in chronic disease prevention --University of Southern Queensland
https://www.usq.edu.au/news/2020/08/jason-bennie-lift

Strength training is as important as cardio --and you can do it from home during COVID-19
https://theconversation.com/strength-training-is-as-important-as-cardio-and-you-can-do-it-from-home-during-covid-19-144668

Three exercise physiologists, including Jason Benny of the University of Southern Queensland, claim that 'muscle training is also important for health.' According to Benny et al., Scientific research on muscle training has been active for more than 30 years, and muscle training not only has the effect of increasing muscle mass, muscle strength, and bone density, but also sugar from the bloodstream. It has been proven that it has the effect of improving the body's function of removing muscles and fat and reducing depression and anxiety.

However, according to a questionnaire survey conducted in the United States from 2011 to 2017, 32.2% of the 1.6 million respondents answered that they would not do aerobic exercise, but they said that they would not do muscle training. The percentage of respondents was 57.2%, which is 25% more than those who do not do aerobic exercise, and the result is that 'more than half do not do muscle training'.

Regarding such muscle training, Benny et al.

Analyzed the data of a large-scale survey by meta-analysis and newly discovered that muscle training has 'the effect of reducing the risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity'. did. An analysis of 11 longitudinal studies involving a total of 370,256 subjects found that subjects undergoing muscle training had a 21% lower mortality rate for all causes than subjects who did not exercise at all. thing. In addition, the effect of reducing the risk of death increases only once or twice a week for muscle training, and even if the frequency is increased further, the effect will not increase.

Regarding the effect of muscle training on reducing the risk of death, Benny et al. 'Even if factors such as age, gender, education level, income, body mass index , depression, and high blood pressure were taken into consideration, there was a clear effect. There was no change in that, 'he said, saying that muscle training is effective for everyone.

According to Benny et al., Muscle training has a greater effect on age-related diseases such as cognitive and physical dysfunction than aerobic exercise, and is recommended for the elderly. With the epidemic of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), Benny and colleagues recommend that you can do self-weight training such as push-ups and squats at home.