This article is the source for ABC FM Life Matters Segment, The Exercise Room.
What is Weight Training?
Weight training is one form of resistance training. Weights – barbells and dumbells – are the implements that immediately come to mind for most people, but there are a multitude of different tools you can use, all of which will give you a different result.
A friend of mine applied for a job at the parent corporation of one of the two largest commercial gym chains in Australia.
He explained when he returned from the interview that their gyms were considered a sales business, rather than a service industry. ‘Doesn’t it make more sense to hang onto the people you already have?’ he asked.