Weight loss programs

Man, I swear, if you’re not exercising consistently in your life and you’re a regular reader of this site, I must be an enormous failure. I try really hard to motivate all you fine folks to get up, get moving and stay that way on a daily basis, and today, I found another little gem of motivation for all of you.

This is especially great news for any of you with friends, family or acquaintances with Down Syndrome. New research is proving with overwhelming success that when young adults or teenagers with Down Syndrome participate in strength training exercise, not only does their muscle strength and functional performance increase, their quality of life and ability to participate in other aspects of everyday life later on goes up too! This news is great especially given the fact that very often, people with Down Syndrome have significantly lower muscle strength, often 40-50% of those people without Down Syndrome. The fact that doing exercise like this can greatly help them is an amazing reason to get them involved in any type of strength training exercise.

According to the study that was presented to the American College of Sports Medicine, “leg strength increased in particular, which is associated with the ability to perform tasks required in everyday life…Arm strength improved 42 percent, on average, and leg strength a remarkable 90 percent.” Bottom line, get them to a Fit Express, Now!