Muscle growth with resistance training persists into your 80s!

A study published in 2023 in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism put two groups of participants through identical resistance training programs. The first group was aged 65-75 and the second was all over age 85. Both groups trained for 12 weeks, 3 times per week and performed resistance training exercises. Both groups experienced an increased in quadricep muscle mass (10-11 percent), total body lean mass (2-3 percent) and increases in power and strength (38-46 percent increases in one rep max leg extension strength). Another great example of the tremendous benefit that people of all ages (and especially older people!) can get from strength and resistance training.