For the study, 369 recently retired and healthy and active seniors, average age 66 years (61 per cent women), were randomly ...

Start with lighter weights, and focus on proper form to maximize effectiveness and minimize the risk of injury. Perform three to five sets of 15 to 30 yards with 60 to 90 seconds of rest between sets.

Among the constant thuds of dropped dumbbells and hum of treadmills ... familiar or not – to offer encouragement during their workout. “Oh, honey, you’re doing a great job on that ...

Attack this movement as your second exercise. Start sitting on the bench with a pair of dumbbells on your thighs ... Brett Williams, NASM-CPT, PES, a senior editor at Men's Health, is a certified ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor ... The other option, if you don’t have heavy enough weights, is to do exercises to complete failure—the point where you simply cannot ...

Alex Tatsch appreciates the fact he now can get home from his practices with Greater Latrobe’s Wildcats football team in time ...

Arm curls: Using water weights made of foam ... Strength training can help seniors stay strong and independent. For strength training, older adults can use their own body weight to do a variety of ...

The fitness gym is 400 square feet larger than the fitness room at the Idle Hour Senior Center. The new space will allow for more exercise machines, free weights and weight machines, officials ...

Unlike Pilates mat work, exercises performed on the Reformer and Tower (or Cadillac) use spring resistance as “weights.” This type of Pilates is likely better for improving bone density than ...

“Basically, walking improves the way muscles use oxygen or helps develop more blood vessels to increase the supply of oxygen,” says Mark Jordan, a senior clinical exercise physiologist who ...

Congratulations are extended to Marty and Margaret Owens, Cloonfane, Carracastle, who celebrated their Ruby Wedding ...