While struggling through long jumps and lunges during a recent class at my boxing gym, the owner suggested I lift weights—heavyweights—to help build strength in my legs and protect my joints.

Having strong, toned arms is a total flex—and not just because you can literally flex them. That strength is also imperative ...

#StrongNotSkinny has become rejected as yet another damaging prescribed standard. Taking the focus off aesthetics, Stylist breaks down why weightlifting is so good for body and mind, with a little ...

Many women in particular have been convinced that ... triple their size and make you look like a bodybuilder. Lifting heavy ...

Julia Linn started strength training at 62 after years of dieting, illness, and organ transplants. Here's how four years of ...

I was always athletic as a kid and loved swimming, cheerleading, and running track. When I was 11, I was diagnosed with ...

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you need to lift heavy weights and eat more calories than you burn — and even then, it can take months to years. Further, women typically have lower levels of anabolic (muscle-building ...

Women can and do excel at weight lifting. While heavy weight lifting is sometimes stereotyped as a men's sport, elite women athletes are, pound for pound, some of the strongest in the world.

There are some weight loss tricks that work equally well ... risk of developing heart disease than those who are bottom-heavy. Many women come home from work and head straight to the kitchen ...

As a teenager, Pamela Everland suffered from irregular and excessively heavy periods ... “A lot of women internalize it (and) can’t accept themselves.” Patients who are weight-shamed or ...