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Lift to Live When I started lifting as a teenager the word was that, if anything, lifting weights would shorten your life. And for many years aerobic exercise was thought to be the key to living healthy and long. It now appears that muscle mass and strength are also associated with all-cause mortality. An article online in Outside by Alex Hutchinson is titled "To Delay Death, Lift Weights." He cites two papers that "offer some eye-opening insights into the benefits of strength train, even for people who consistently blow the aerobic exercise guidelines out of the water." The first assessed 4,440 adults ages 50 or up who had their strength and muscle mass assessed between 1999 and 2002. They checked back in 2011 to see who had died. The results found that those with low muscle strength "were more than twice as likely to have died during the follow-up period than those with normal muscle strength. In contrast, having low muscle mass didn't seem to matter as much. "Our findings imply that muscle strength appears more important than muscle mass." The other study took aim at the perception that strength training is an afterthought in public health guidelines. We can probably recall that recommendations suggested a pattern of 150 minutes of moderate exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise. The guidelines also suggested "strength-promoting exercise" at a minimum of two times a week, which is the part of the guidelines most people forget. Researchers in Australia analyzed data from 80,000 adults in England and Scotland who completed surveys about their activity patterns starting in the 1990s. The headline result was that those who reported doing any strength training were 23 percent less likely to die of cancer. Meeting the guidelines by strength training twice a week offered a little extra benefit. * * * After writing the above, it was called to my attention that I had written about this study previously, 2018 to be exact. I decided that it was worth a second airing. We hope our readers will agree. November 1, 2024 Comment on this article: FEEDBACK Ripped Enterprises, P.O. Box 51236, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87181-1236 Home | Products Index | Ripped Bks | Lean Adv. Bks | Lean For Life | Recommended Bks | |Consultations | Tapes | To Order | Feedback] Copyright © 2024 Clarence and Carol Bass. All rights reserved.
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