Nowadays, lifting weights is so easy, your grandma can do it. A new study published in the Human Kinetics Journals studied resistance training exercises for older individuals between their sixties and ...

Here’s the message from Dr. Marcas Bamman, a physiologist with decades of research into aging who preaches the benefits of weight-resistance training for those who are getting up there. We’re talking ...

TOKYO — Here's the message from Dr. Marcas Bamman, a physiologist with decades of research into aging who preaches the benefits of weight-resistance training for those who are getting up there. We're ...

If you want to lift your grandkids, get up the stairs, haul groceries, and conquer all of life’s adventures with confidence ...

While struggling through long jumps and lunges during a recent class at my boxing gym, the owner suggested I lift weights—heavyweights—to help build strength in my legs and protect my joints.

Seniors battling insomnia are best off picking up some dumbbells or doing some push-ups, a new evidence review suggests. Resistance exercise, activities that make muscles work against an external ...

A year ago, if you’d have asked me if I’d consider getting into weightlifting I would have laughed. Like many women in their 40s, I was raised to feel that strength training wasn’t accessible to me.