No heavy lifting is required to conclude that strength training promotes good health. It’s especially important as we age and muscles waste away if we don’t do something. Plus, as a new study finds:

“People who did around 90 to 120 minutes of strength training a week – or roughly an hour and a half to two hours – had about a 13% lower risk of dying from any cause than those who did none.”

https://theconversation.com/people-who-lift-weights-live-longer-new-study-284787

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