A new study from Brazil suggests that weight training can help protect the brain from dementia, especially in older adults ...

A new study shows that weight training not only boosts physical strength but also protects the brains of older adults with mild cognitive impairment.

The benefits of weight training are many: it promotes gains in strength and muscle mass, reduces body fat, and contributes to ...

When getting into weightlifting as a senior, your weights don't need to be anything drastically heavy. Even a simple 3-5 pound dumbbell with the right exercises and high reps will do a lot of work ...

Cognitive improvement was also imagined, but we wanted to see the effect of weight training on the brains of older people with mild cognitive impairment. The study showed that, fortunately ...

Seniors battling insomnia are best off picking ... Resistance exercise could include weightlifting or body-weight training like push-ups or planks. People engaging in resistance exercises had ...

New research has revealed a novel approach to staving off insomnia for older people - lifting weights. According to sleep experts, muscle building or resistance style training such as dumbbell and ...

Cognitive improvement was also imagined, but we wanted to see the effect of weight training on the brains of older people with mild cognitive impairment. The study showed that, fortunately ...

Half of the participants practiced weight training twice a week, with moderate to high intensity and progressive loads ...