Weight training is a very popular and common type of strength training that is useful for the development and volume increase of skeletal muscles of the body. Strength training includes weight trainings and many other kind of trainings where muscle strength and size is increased. There is difference between weight training and other kind of strength training regarding how the opposition of the muscular contraction is generated. The overall benefits of weight training can be compared with the other types of strength training regarding increased volume of muscles, density of bones, strength of ligaments and tendons, tone, flexibility, metabolic rate and postural support. There are many benefits of weight training when compared to other strength training as well as there are also many limitations.
Weight training is very safe to perform when it is done under proper guidance in slow, careful and controlled manner. But the improper execution of weight training may lead to injury. When the exercise is difficult to execute at the end of the exercise set the tendency to use other muscle groups to assist the method is quite common. This might result in involvement of the weaker muscles that cannot bear the weight. This results in serious injuries. So weight-training exercises must be performed in a proper way under proper guidance.