StrongFast Planet September 2020

Lifting makes us feel good. Even this goofball.

This has been a pretty grim year for most people. So it's nice to see articles like this one about The emotional benefits of weight training: why lifting makes us feel so good. It's not "news" but has some good details and references I haven't seen before.

From the article:

The benefits were about the same, even if people were only lifting a couple of times per week – you didn’t have to weight train every day. And the findings revealed that it wasn’t improvements in strength or appearance that were helping to improve mental health, it was the simple fact of doing the training.

This kind of ties in with the Motivation post above (that I'm sure you already read). It's almost like this issue of The Planet has a theme! Almost.

Anyway, check out the article. Then go lift!

Meanwhile, summer is technically gone but there's still plenty of great weather to get out and enjoy all kinds of activities. So do that, too.

Stay safe. Stay healthy. Stay strong. Literally.

Be seeing you.