1217: Five Surprising Benefits of Weight Training

Speaking about hormones, there isn't one single thing aside from taking testosterone... a man can do that won't have as strong or as direct of a positive effect on their testosterone like resistance training ... You can compare it against anything else ... Nothing causes a direct strong effect on testosterone as much as lifting weights.

Resistance training will boost your libido... more than any other form of exercise. If you want to get horny and you want to find a form of exercise that will help you do that, lift weights. Nothing does it better.

Strength training gives you the formula for life. When you learn to strength train and you lift weights properly with the intent to build muscle and burn body fat, what you end up piecing together is the formula that applies to almost everything else in your life—that it takes hard work; there are going to be setbacks along the way, but you get back up; consistency is one of the most important things.

Resistance training, and exercise in general, is phenomenal for libido. It's got to be one of the best things you could do for your sexual vitality.

All exercise raises a chemical in the brain called BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor), which is like Miracle Grow for the neurons in the brain.

Studies are showing that exercise is as effective as a lot of these drugs for mild to moderate forms of depression.

Neuroscientists noticed a little while ago that the hippocampus of the brain in people who tend to have depression and anxiety, it tends to be smaller ... Exercise supports nerve cell growth in the hippocampus.

Studies show, for men, you're going to get like a 15-25% increase, on average, in your testosterone levels from lifting weights.

The initial strength gains you get when you first start lifting weights [are] less from the fact that your muscles are actually bigger and stronger and more from the fact that your central nervous system, which includes your brain, is operating better.

Muscle is a very glycogen, sugar, insulin sensitive tissue. If you want to improve your insulin sensitivity, have more muscle.