There has been a prevailing sentiment that lifting weights isn’t good for a young body until the teenage years. There is some truth to that statement but let’s make a key distinction between ...

Lifting weights can build strength, add muscle, and put you in a good mood. Now, a new study finds that the practice may have an even bigger benefit: a longer life. An observational study of ...

Lifting weights doesn't just strengthen your muscles. It also helps to improve your bone and joint health. Having strong bones and joints is important to fight the natural weakening of bones that ...

Strength training is a great way to exercise efficiently while preventing injury. But it can be nerve-wracking if you're worried about what other people think of you at the gym.

Lifting light weights works Both groups lifted to “volitional fatigue,” meaning until they felt they couldn’t raise or lower the weight again. Once they could lift for more than either 12 or ...

Weightlifting, all one word, is the sport in which people—wearing what look like old-timey swimsuits—pick up barbells loaded with brightly colored weights. Weight lifting, by contrast, refers ...

Weight lifting was one of just nine sports at the first Olympics in 1896, but its days on the summer program may be numbered. After decades of rampant doping, bribery, vote-rigging and corruption ...

She found that lifting gave her a new sense of self-determination. “I felt I was grabbing all of life’s crap and imagining it on a bar that I could hoist over my head,” she writes.