Seniors Benefit From Strength Training

An updated Cochrane review finds that progressive resistance muscle training improves strength in older adults who exercised two to three times a week. The exercises enhance their ability to do daily tasks such as walking, climbing steps or getting out of a chair. Other studies have shown that activity is important to continued good health as a person ages.

Strength Training exercise has people working against resistance that increases as the muscle gets stronger, usually using exercise machines, free weights or elastic bands. It fills a need in the older population.