The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends healthy adults incorporate at least 2 or more days per week of muscle strengthening activities that work all major muscle groups (legs, hips, back, abdomen, chest, shoulders and arms).

Weight training does not have be done next to the bodybuilders in a gym!  There are several ways to strengthen your muscles, whether at home or at the gym:

• Lifting weights
• Using resistance bands
• Using your body weight as resistance
• Heavy yard work such as digging and shoveling
• Yoga

To gain health benefits, strength training activities need to be done to the point where it is hard for you to do one more repetition without assistance. So no, basic weeding in your flower bed is not strength training (unless you are squatting or lunging properly), nor is picking up a light set of hand weights and moving them around for a few minutes.

If you have the below questions, this class is for you!

• How to get started?
• What to do?
• What exercises are for which muscles?
• How much to lift?
• How many repetitions?
• What are "sets" and how many do you do?
• How do you safely use weight equipment?
• What is proper form?
• More!

Join us at 121 Fitness to learn all the basics, receive handouts to take with you and try our machine weights safely with instruction.  We will also demonstrate activities you can do at home or while traveling.

This class is limited to 20 people.  If the registration is full, email to be put on the wait list!