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Now how many of us can actually get a good trainer like the ones who participate in olympics???On the contrary lifting weights is not for pehalwans or sumos alone and no you're not going to get big if you lift weights. And yes it builds both functional strength and flexibility provided that you don't do 10 isolation exercises for your chest, traps or any other single muscle group; do deadlifts, squats, overhead presses and weighted pullups - It doesn't get anymore functional than that.
Have you ever wondered why those Olympic lifters who're doing Power Cleans look neither big nor bloated and yet have tons of functional strength - Its because they're doing the right kind of exercises. Or how Olympic sprinters do all of those functional exercises in the gym and still don't look bloated but extremely chiseled.
If you're going to go to the gym and instead of doing compound exercises with free-weights are going to do bodybuilding exercises you're not going build any functional strength and yes you're going to reduce your flexibility.
Lifting weights means that you're progressively increasing resistance that your body is subjected to, including your bones. The bones compensate for that by getting denser....as you age you loose bone density and women loose it more quickly and much more than men. Progressive resistance training (like strength training using weights) ensures that you either don't loose bone density at an accelerated or you've already got enough of it to compensate for the loss or both of them at once.
P.S Cardio is an absolute waste of time.....build muscle - you won't get big....you don't have the testosterone thats needed to get big - because muscle burns calories even in rest phase.
If you're looking for muscles which show on you through your shirts, then gym is the place to go. But I wonder why would one waste so much time at the gym working each part of their body separately when you can connect all of the dots and do it all at once with yoga???
I prefer outdoor activity compared to gym; gym is artificial and non-scientific.
Go out for swimming, tennis, soccer, do yoga or just about anything but not gym.
YOGA nahi hoga Toh Kya hoga??? hehehe