If you want to lift your grandkids, get up the stairs, haul groceries, and conquer all of life’s adventures with confidence as you age, here’s the science-backed secret: lift weights. Yep, those ...

The fitness and health industries are not only celebrating, but also encouraging, women to add resistance training to their ...

What comes to mind when you think about exercising to lose weight? Probably cardio, right? But weight lifting for weight loss shouldn’t be overlooked. Weight lifting isn’t just great for building ...

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You can get the same workout and build strength without heavy equipment. But it takes work. By Christie Aschwanden Many people believe that to build strength you either need a set of weights or a gym ...

While there are many benefits of strength training that don’t involve changing your body composition, experts often recommend ...

If you lift heavy weights, you’ll get stronger. That’s the principle of progressive overload in a nutshell. As you get stronger, you need to lift heavier weights to keep getting stronger. The numbers ...

I used to think weight training was just about building muscle and getting stronger. Boy, was I wrong. After diving deep into the research and tracking my own body’s responses, I discovered that how ...

Maybe you’re not sure how to start lifting weights for a full-body workout. Or maybe you think you’d have to spend hours at the gym or bench press a hundred pounds to gain benefits. But lifting light ...

Anyone who lifts weights regularly will tell you that it makes them feel great. But evidence continues to stack up in support of strength training for everything from improving metabolic health to ...

If you regularly hit up the weight room, you may have noticed some folks with lifting belts strapped around their waists as they deadlift, squat, or do other big moves. The belts can look like a wider ...