While being a heart disease survivor, cardiovascular exercise is essential to my health. However along with cardio, which at times takes a lot of motivation, there is also strength training, otherwise known as "Lifting Weights." The entire concept or motivation of lifting weights as a teen or in our 20s was mainly to look hot for our partner. While this may be a poor excuse to develop the habit of strength training, anything our minds do to create a desire to do positive things for our health is not so bad in the long run. As we get older and out of shape, also known as the aging process, the desire to do healthy things for ourselves becomes less a focus because life happens. However, never forget, no matter how healthy you are, life is short, and your chances for making it even shorter are greatly reduced by taking care of yourself. Will strength training increase your life expectancy? Probably not. Will the combination of strength training, cardio, eating right and feeling good about yourself because you made the effort to be healthy increase your life expectancy? I guarantee it!
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