{"id":41,"date":"2011-06-13T16:04:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T06:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2012-10-12T15:26:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T05:26:14","slug":"building-strength-for-women-in-particular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/muscle-and-fitness\/building-strength-for-women-in-particular\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Strength for Women in particular:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walk into any gym and you&#8217;ll probably see the weights room filled with men doing bench presses, while the stretch classes are 99% female.\u00a0 This needs to be reversed, say Greg Stark, from Better Being Personal Training.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Women have lower bone density and it becomes more apparent the older they get,&#8221; he says.\u00a0 &#8220;Weight-bearing exercise increases their bone density and reduces their chance of developing osteoporosis.&#8221; Strength training also helps your body use stored fat and tone up.\u00a0 &#8220;Use free weights, they increase the demand for joints to be stable as you move, whereas fixed machines guide the movement so the joint stability isn&#8217;t there,&#8221; Stark says.<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn&#8217;t mean you should give up the stretch classes.\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s important to have a balance between mobility and stability,&#8221; Stark says.<\/p>\n<p>Jacki&#8217;s Aerobic Dancing classes\u00a0feature stretching, isolation abdominal work\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> resistance training using Jacki&#8217;s own Vertifirm<sup>TM<\/sup> method where students have the option to\u00a0use hand held weights and ankle weights to tone and build strength whilst using their core to balance, as well as the aerobic segment and the dancey cooldown.\u00a0 In other words &#8211; a full body workout!<\/p>\n<p><em>This article by\u00a0Kimberley Gillan was featured in Body + Soul (June 5, 2011)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walk into any gym and you&#8217;ll probably see the weights room filled with men doing bench presses, while the stretch classes are 99% female.\u00a0 This needs to be reversed, say Greg Stark, from Better Being Personal Training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-muscle-and-fitness","category-muscle-and-strength"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerobicdancing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}