Most older adults, even highly active ones, skip strength training. Strength training, also called resistance training, is exercise that requires muscles to move against a weight or resistance.

Lifting weights isn’t just for the bodybuilders, strength training is for everyone. In fact, it’s particularly important for maintaining health, strength and independence in your golden years. When ...

Strength training isn't just for bodybuilders or young fitness enthusiasts. For seniors, it’s one of the most powerful ways to age well. After the age of 50, we naturally start losing muscle mass and ...

Dear Savvy Senior: Can lifting weights help with age-related health problems? At age 70, I have diabetes, arthritis and osteoporosis and recently read strength training could improve my conditions.

CODY — When Deb White, owner of Wyoming Sport and Fitness, noticed an issue with the strength and balance of her 90-year-old mother, she came up with a plan that could make a difference in the lives ...

Harriet Witt is serious about fitness. “I am not a wimp. I am not a wimp,” she smiles. “Everybody is coming to the gym. Fifty, 60, 70 — it doesn’t matter what age you are to work out. You should feel ...

At 85, Nancy DiFranco spends her Monday and Wednesday mornings leading Kirtland Senior Center members in push-ups, squats, curls and other strength training exercises. DiFranco has been leading the ...

The sound of laughter traveled through the North Platte Senior Center on Tuesday as Jon Wieseler told a joke about the hassles of a “recalculating” GPS system. Wieseler isn’t a comedian — he’s a ...