At Corporate Box Gym we offer a free weights training area at each of our gym locations for customers who want to improve their strength and conditioning. We also offer fitness and strength conditioning classes if you want one of our professional trainers to help guide and enhance your strength training sessions.
Whether you are into boxing, kickboxing/Muay Thai or BJJ/MMA, additional strength training using free weights helps you sculpt your physique by training harder and longer, and achieving greater success. Improving your physical performance, power, resistance, core stability and endurance will also help in your day-today life, not just in your chosen martial arts. Here are five great reasons why you should improve your strength and conditioning using free weights.
As we get older, our lean muscle mass slowly decreases over time and eventually turns to fat. The way to prevent this happening is to take up free weight training, because this helps to continually build lean muscle mass, which is essential for martial arts training. In the process of building lean muscle mass, and if your diet is healthy, you will also lose fat, sculpting your physique and achieving your goals faster.
Strength and balance are essential requirements for boxing, kickboxing/Muay Thai or BJJ/MMA and free weights have proven to be an effective strategy for building these qualities. As your strength and balance increases, you not only perform faster, but you also significantly reduce your risk of injuries. If you want to improve your performance in the martial arts, free weights will give you the edge you seek.
As you become stronger and more balanced, you automatically gain more confidence in yourself and your quality of life increases. More muscle mass and less fat gives you the ability to perform everyday tasks with ease, whilst at the same time feeling comfortable in your own body. The ability to participate in numerous activities and to move freely without feeling tired or exhausted helps to increase your confidence in your own abilities.
Stronger muscles lead to stronger bones and it’s well-known that free weights help to increase bone density. Bone loss is something that most of us will need to deal with as we get older, but the best strategy is to prevent it happening by increasing both your lean muscle mass and bone density using free weights.
A solid core not only helps you look good, it also helps to protect your spine and internal organs from injury. Increasing your strength and endurance with free weight training also enhances your core muscles, because your body needs to stabilise itself as you lift and move the weights. This stabilisation comes from your core muscles which contract as you lift the weights, increasing the strength of these muscles.
The bonus of using free weights is that you challenge yourself every time you attend a session and these challenges only enhance your performance and ability in martial arts. Why not check out our free weights training areas next time you come to class?
