Get strong, stay healthy with Ollie Booth

Welcome to Get Strong, Stay Healthy, part three of the Complete Fitness mini-series is focusing on movement, in particular the lesser known aspect, strength training.

There are a lot of misconceptions surrounding strength training, especially surrounding its role in general health.

But whatever your age or ability, it’s recommended (with clearance from your GP) that you should be doing some form of strength training at least twice a week.

What is strength training?

For general health, strength training can be summarised as doing exercises that work the major muscles whilst putting the joints through their full range of motion.

To start with, aim for a difficulty where you can only complete 6-20 repetitions.

Why we should strength train?

A quick search on the internet and you’ll find a list of benefits but how does that actually translate to real life?

Whilst most people that start strength training have tried other forms of exercise first, it should really be the other…