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 ...

Getting older doesn’t mean getting weaker. In fact, senior weight lifting—that is, doing resistance training with machines and/or free weights in your 60s and beyond—offers physical and ...

Resistance training, which can involve weights, body weight or resistance bands, has been shown to help prevent this from happening. Researchers wanted to explore the long-term effects of a one ...

In this review, the investigators found that lifting heavier weights was the best way to gain strength. To maximize muscle size, however, the weight was less important than repetitions.

Though you can add weight vests to decrease the repetition range of calisthenics and match many of the lifting benefits, changing your training to a lifting cycle instead could be a natural ...

If you’ve ever felt apprehensive about weight training, worried it’s too complicated or physically demanding, new research about lifting practically bulges with encouraging news for you.

If your goal is just to get stronger, numerous studies have shown that you can get similar results from either body weight exercises or lifting weights, Dr. Steele said. For instance, in a small ...