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weight training
noun
weightlifting done as a conditioning exercise.
weight training
noun
physical exercise involving lifting weights to improve muscle performance
Example Sentences
A new study examined how muscles respond to weight training when people eat different types of pork afterward.
One earlier experiment showed that eating whole eggs after weight training led to greater muscle-protein synthesis than eating the same amount of protein from egg whites alone.
Although weight training boosted muscle-protein synthesis in the groups eating pork, the protein in the high-fat burger seemed to have no added benefit in the hours after participants consumed it, while the protein in the lean pork gave muscle-protein synthesis a boost.
Those who consumed the lean pork burger after a bout of weight training also had a greater rate of muscle-protein synthesis than those who ate the high-fat pork burger.
Manrara says she went on to host a Strictly live tour while pregnant and kept going to the gym, on her doctor's advice, doing weight training until six months into her pregnancy, when she says she had to slow down.
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