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Stronger Muscles at Any Age

Posted October 13, 2007 at 04:00 PM by Sahara Jackson

Section: Her Fitness, Training Programs, Her Health, Her News

You are never too old to enlarge and strengthen your muscles. A study from Copenhagen, Denmark shows that just 12 weeks of lifting weights significantly strengthened the muscles of men 85 to 97 years of age (Scandinavian Journal of Medicine &…

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Exercise and Aging

Posted August 24, 2007 at 11:00 AM by Katie Drummond

Section: Her Fitness, Her Health, Her News

In the olden days it was believed that exercise was strictly for the younger generation. In fact most people were convinced that older people couldn’t increase their muscle mass or strength however hard they tried. Today, these myths have been shattered by detailed…

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