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Although, resistance training exercises are usually considered to build strong muscles, however, muscles are not the only part of your body that benefit from the strength training. These magnificent exercises can strengthen your bones and ligaments and are also very effective for strengthening your tendons. When the ligaments and tendons are well developed along with strong muscles, there would be an overall reduced risk of injuries including avulsion, tendon tear and even fracture. resistance training exercises also help improve tendons that may have symptoms of tendinosis.

As we all know that muscular strength and endurance increase with resistance training, but one thing that most of us don’t know that the tendon strength only increases as your muscle increases. Therefore, tendon strengthening routines are associated with resistance training workouts as well. An important thing to keep in your mind is that the overall volume of workouts, intensity of training and load bearing are the determining factors in increasing the strength of your tendons. Moreover, heavy weights are more effective at strengthening your tendons and ligaments than light weights. It is important to remember that tendons grow slowly and develop gradually. Therefore, you need to stick to a high training routine and must proceed gradually so that your tendons adapt well in response to training.

Now, the question arises that how the tendons and ligaments strength increase with the gym exercises. Well, resistance training and endurance training exercises can cause tissues’ injury and damage or they can stress the cells that produce collagen. Because of this stress, there would be an increase in the production of collagen after the exercise, which eventually will lead to an increased tendons and ligaments strength over time. To repair the injured tissues after the strength training exercises, your body will release molecules that will help tissues repair and re-grow. Moreover, recent researches have revealed that our hormone levels also increase in response to resistance training exercises. Testosterone is a growth hormone that is produced by our bodies in response to the exercises and it directly affects the recovery of tendons, ligaments and muscles after the strength training workouts.

A perfect technique to strengthen your tendons and ligaments while developing your muscles at the same time is to lower the weight slowly in order to put maximum stress on your connective tissues. If we talk about the bench press, then make sure that you slowly lower the weight to your chest. In order to get maximum benefits of strength training exercises, it is a good idea to perform workouts in the supervision of a qualified professional gym trainer. He not only will design a right combination of exercises that will target your ligaments, tendons and muscles at the same time, but will also guide you on how to perform theses exercises with perfection.

Guy Long offers Persoanl Training in Caulfield and is a Personal Trainer in Prahran where he specializes in resistance training, body transformation, weight control, and overall muscular strength for local residents.

Author: Guy Long
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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