Pump some iron!

I'm a HUGE proponent of regular weight training regardless of whether your goal is fat loss, muscle building, or even just general health.

I have a quick story today on how regular weight training just saved my friend Joe from a broken leg recently!

A couple weeks ago, Joe was skiing in Utah in some deep, deep powder. He came over a ridge and saw a beautiful steep wide-open slope that looked like an untouched powder field.

Joe started ripping down the powder full speed when all of the sudden he crashed into some hidden (and jagged!) boulders that were hidden just a couple inches beneath the powder surface, and since the wind had blown the surface flat, you couldn't even see any bump or outline that there were hidden boulders.

Well, I'll tell you... Joe slammed into those boulders full-speed, they ripped him right out of his skis and sent him cart wheeling down the steep slope hitting every part of his body on more jagged boulders.

Good thing he wear a helmet huh!

The place that he slammed the hardest on the rocks was his own leg, right smack-dab on his shin bone. It was an extremely deep gash on Joe’s shin, and he can even feel that there seems to be a bone chip missing from that spot now on his leg.

However, the good news is that despite slamming his leg full speed onto a huge nasty boulder, he didn't break my leg. As a matter of fact, the next day, Joe was back out skiing without any problems with his leg.

Now he’s willing to bet anything that if he hadn't been a regular weight lifter for his entire adult life, that he would have easily snapped his leg and be in a cast right now.

But that's another great benefit of regular, intense, and heavy (for your personal strength levels) weight training...

Beyond just the benefits of making you leaner, building muscle, increasing your metabolic rate, improving your heart health, etc, etc... Weight training also drastically increases your bone density, so that you are more protected when life throws accidents at you like this little rock-slamming ski incident of mine.

And I'm sure you've heard about senior citizens breaking their hips when they have a simple slip & fall later in life? Well, if they had been weight training most of their lives, those hip fractures would be a lot less common.

Thanks to all of those years of heavy dead lifts, squats, lunges.

Now let's go pump some iron!