This article examines the numerous health benefits of resistance training (weightlifting), positioning it as a crucial exercise modality for improving overall health and longevity. It explores how resistance training outperforms other forms of exercise in reducing injury and fall rates, enhancing cognitive function and mood, and supporting cancer patients' recovery and survival. The article also highlights the importance of combining resistance training with aerobic exercises for optimal results, counteracting age-related issues like sarcopenia and cognitive decline. Ultimately, it advocates for incorporating resistance training into fitness routines, emphasizing its far-reaching impacts beyond muscle growth and aesthetics.

Doing cardio as you get older means choosing options with a lower impact, such as biking, as opposed to forms of cardio with high impact, such as running, for the sake of preventing injury.

It is not impossible to get a six-pack after 40. If you train and eat properly, obtaining a six-pack is exceptionally straightforward, regardless of age.

Does aging guarantee a decline in one’s sense of well-being? In some ways, perhaps, but many of the negative effects of aging can be reversed through lifestyle changes.

Thanksgiving can feel intimidating for fitness-minded folks, so this blog explores all of the possible avenues of enjoying Thanksgiving as a fitness-lover guilt-free.

Lifting weights properly involves progressive tension overload —gradually getting stronger on compound exercises over time by systematic means. Older weightlifters retain this primary essential to weightlifting, but other less critical aspects of lifting change as we age.

Jump rope can be used for both aerobic and anaerobic exercises.

According to Dr. Layne Norton, PhD nutritional scientist, when we get injured, we should adjust our calories to a new maintenance to ensure we do not gain needless fat and to maintain muscle mass while injured.

Can fish oil or curcumin help with injury recovery? Learn more in my interview with Legion Athletics and Examine.com’s Kurtis Frank, where we discuss dietary supplements for injury recovery.

High protein diets are essential not only for building muscle and strength for athletes, but high protein diets are also safe and beneficial. It is a myth to say high protein diets are unhealthy or dangerous.

What mindset should athletes have when they are injured? According to sports psychology, many athletes —at least in the short term— will have to pursue other meaningful purposes.

Depending on the injury or sport, your recovery outcome for an injury may vary depending on your biological sex.

Are the protein recommendations too low? The leading nutritional scientist studying protein thinks so.

Getting injured does not mean that we have to stop working out. There are scientifically supported methods of working out around —not through!— injuries that are easily implementable.

Strategies such as unilateral training and other forms of “working around” one’s injury can help athletes stay in shape while recovering from an injury.

Getting hurt in the gym sucks, and it can really bring you down if you let it.

Losing weight is challenging. Fat loss approaches that incorporate intermittent fasting, high fiber intake, high water intake, and calorie tracking will make fat loss success more likely to occur.

Building muscle with steroids is simple but is often obscured by fitness influencers and multi-media enterprises.

I lift weights because it gives me a firm grounding in life to discipline myself. Training is a form of hygiene that brings about self-disciplinary attitudes in other areas of my life.

Collagen supplements are hyped up nowadays, but they have no scientific research backing up their purported benefits.