The pursuit of being as thin as possible often leads to long-term consequences such as bone disease like osteoporosis.

“The pursuit of skinny is a bad thing with devastating consequences. Like, you're going to end up with bone disease like osteoporosis.”

Resistance training is the primary and most effective method for strengthening bones and preventing osteoporosis, particularly through weight-bearing and multi-joint movements.

“And strength training really is the primary way to strengthen the bones. So, while you're strengthening the muscles, necessarily the bones become strengthened as well.”

Resistance training is the most effective method for preventing bone injury and establishing skeletal health.

“resistance training is the best prevention of injury and oftent times coaches don't include that. There's a lot of time on the soccer field or the softball field and so um you know total body exercises whether we start with resistance bands or lightweights or plyometrics or med balls those are all r”