Great news resistance training/weightlifting can help you live longer. Resistance training is associated with reduced risk of all-cause, cardiovascular disease, and cancer-specific mortality (1)

Resistance training reduced the risk of all-cause mortality by 15%. Cardiovascular disease mortality by 19%. Cancer mortality by 14%. Its hard to believe something so easy to do can do so much for your health.

Did you know 30-40% of people over the age of 65 who break their hip will be dead within a year. (2) Holy cow that scary.

Not enough can be said about the importance of grip strength as you age. It’s one of the strongest physical associations with longer life.

As we age, we naturally lose muscle mass. The fancy term for this is sarcopenia. Sarcopenia is a common condition in older adults that contributes to functional decline, disability, frailty, and falls.

With weightlifting/resistance training, even if you did fall, you’re going to have more muscle mass and you’re probably going to have more bone density‒ these are going to help.

It does not matter if your lifting free weight or using machines. All that matters is that you are doing something. Basement gym or health club who cares. Are you lifting weights that all that matters.

1: Resistance Training and Mortality Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – PubMed (nih.gov)

2:Meta-analysis: excess mortality after hip fracture among older women and men – PubMed (nih.gov)