This makes you better at sports because it more closely mimics the varies stresses those sports put onto your body. They prepare your body for the changeable reality that is typical of most sports, the different angles, twists and combinations of movement.

Strength training (including workouts done using your own body weight or using extra weights) has a number of benefits for everybody – even endurance athletes such as runners or cyclists:

Strengthening the right muscles helps you increase speed*
- Increased muscular coordination improves the economy of your runs*
- Improving your structural fitness helps to prevent injuries.
- And if it’s relevant to you, strength training also helps build muscle and lose fat as well as providing a boost for your - metabolism. All good reasons to activate your gym membership!

Talking about monitoring your progress, the training diary is a log of all your Sports Tracker activities and the best way to get an overall view of your progress and see how much you’ve accomplished. If you want to view your history in a specific activity, such as gym workouts, just use the search bar or the Choose a sport button.

Gym Based Workouts
Generally, I like to break my workouts down into different component parts. Not only does it help me structure my sessions but also ensures that I’m ticking off all the areas that I want to.

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