A Hoyer lift is a form of durable medical equipment (DME). Medicare covers DME, such as devices to lift people, under Part B (medical insurance).

Now I don’t even pay attention to the scale. At MADabolic, we use a colored weight scale (white, teal, gray, black) that goes from lightest weights (white) to heaviest weights (black). I started in ...

Strength and conditioning coach Richard Blagrove from St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, suggests that on a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is repetition failure, lifting to 7 or 8 is about right.