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How Weight Training Can Help People With Special Requirements

We tend to think of people that are into weight training as either the bodybuilding type or the sportsperson with an emphasis on building big and powerful bodies. That's a fact, but weight training is used for many other purposes, providing benefit for particular groups of people such as the elderly, the handicapped and the ill or rehabilitating.

Making Seniors Strong With Weight Training
Training with weights helps seniors maintain strength and resists muscle decline if they work at it.

Physical Activity Guidelines for American Youth
Physical Activity Guidelines for Children and Youth

Build Your Best Body in 52 Weeks
Start slowly and build your best body over 52 weeks.

Medical Clearance for Weight Training Clients
Weight training can help improve certain medical conditions, but you have to know when to get a medical clearance from a doctor or appropriate health professional.

Five Ways Weight Training Can Improve Diabetes
See how weights and resistance training can help you with diabetes.

Getting to Know the Different Weight Training Disciplines
Bodybuilding, powerlifting and weightlifting are all competitive sports. Weight training for health and fitness is quite different even though similar exercises can be utilized.

Best Exercises for Osteoporosis
Exercise and nutrition can help women and men avoid the bone condition called osteoporosis or brittle bones. Some exercises work and some are not so good. Find out the best exercises for osteoporosis.

Beat Diabetes with Exercise and Weight Training
Weight training and strength training assists in preventing type 2 diabetes and maintaining the health of those unfortunate enough to have been diagnosed with this affliction. Here's a summary of what the experts say.

Strength Training for the Elderly - from Mature Fitness
During the past decade, several studies have established that strength training is a safe and beneficial activity for adults of all ages.

Weight Training Benefits Breast-Cancer Survivors
Pumping iron a couple times a week can help breast-cancer survivors look and feel better, new research suggests.

How Weight Training Can Help You Live Longer
Do weight training and live longer.

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