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2. Experts Say Weight Lifting Is The Fountain Of Youth. Here's ...

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   In fact, senior weight lifting—that is, doing resistance training with machines and/or free weights in your 60s and beyond—offers physical and mental benefits that make it a far more important ...

3. A year of strength training can provide years of benefits for ...

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   According to the study published in BMJ on Tuesday, 12 months of heavy resistance training can provide benefits years later. The study included adults 64–75 years of age. The study included ...

4. 5 Senior-Friendly Strength Workouts for Cross-Training Days - AOL

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   Strength training becomes even more critical as you age. Add these five senior workouts to your schedule to maintain muscle mass and protect performance. 5 Senior-Friendly Strength Workouts for ...

5. Benefits of physical activity - Wikipedia

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   Both dieting and physical activity play a critical role in maintaining healthy body weight, or maintaining successful weight loss. [10] Physical activity helps control weight by using excess calories that would otherwise be stored as fat. Most activities burn calories, including sleeping, breathing, and digesting food. Balancing the calories ...

6. Strength training - Wikipedia

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   Strength training is primarily an anaerobic activity, although circuit training also is a form of aerobic exercise. Strength training can increase muscle, tendon, and ligament strength as well as bone density, metabolism, and the lactate threshold; improve joint and cardiac function; and reduce the risk of injury in athletes and the elderly ...

7. General fitness training - Wikipedia

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   Diet itself helps to increase calorie burning by boosting metabolism, a process further enhanced while gaining more lean muscle. An aerobic exercise program can burn fat and increase the basal metabolic rate (BMR) in obese adults, studies show that through proper diet over the span of 6 months in obese adults has shown a positive correlation in fitness and mood, as well as a weight loss ...