How Weight Training Has Improved My Gymnastics and Reduced My Injuries
About a year and a half ago I started taking personal training classes to improve my strength and help reduce gymnastics injuries due to muscle weakness in my body. Now I weight train because I love these types of workouts and I have seen dramatic improvements in my athletic abilities. Skills and exercises I have not been strong enough to do in the past come easy to me now. I also notice that I know how to engage different muscle groups to help me do certain skills. I feel stronger, more aware of my body, and healthier. In The Beginning When I first started taking personal training sessions, I wasn't really familiar with weight training. All I knew was that body builders do weight training to build muscle mass. Before taking these classes, I had back pain. It wasn't from an acute injury and I thought it was due to over-training. I had a muscle-related back injury in the past and it took me nearly four months to recover. I started personal training sessions as a way to improve ...