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Mindful Muscles: Strength Training with Kathryn
Mon, Feb 05
|Totowa Public Library
Strength training (also known as resistance training) is a type of exercise that causes your muscles to contract against an outside resistance. The outside resistance can be from your body weight or dumbbells.
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Feb 05, 2024, 6:15 PM – 7:00 PM
Totowa Public Library, 537 Totowa Rd, Totowa, NJ 07512, USA
About The Event
What You Will Need
- A Matt
- Sneakers
- Workout clothes or sweats
- Hand Weights (4-10 pounds)
Benefits of Strength Training
- Increased muscle mass: Helps to maintain muscle strength and function and improve general physical function
- Stronger bones: Helps reduce the risk of bone fractures
- Joint flexibility: Can reduce symptoms of stiffness and arthritis
- Enhances overall quality of life by giving you the ability to do more
- Weight control: Can help to manage your weight
- Helps to control your blood sugar
- Can help prevent reoccurrence or secondary cancer
- Improves sleep
- Balance: Can help reduce falls
- Reductions in cancer-related fatigue and anxiety and depression
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