long distance youth

A regular weight-training plan can make you feel-and look-decades younger. Recent research indicates that building muscle strength provides greater benefits to your health and vitality than was previously thought. Combined with a regimen of aerobic exercise, weight training strengthens your heart, boosts energy levels and protects you from in injuries. It’ll even improve your sex life, says Mark H. Cline, Ph.D., of the Male Health Center in Dallas. “When you’re physically stronger, you’re more robust, you have more energy and you’re more likely to be sexually active.”
Plus, it helps keep you looking great. Weight training shapes and tones muscles better than aerobic conditioning, and it wards off flab. “As a result, the average man who lifts weights will look even better than an endurance athlete when they’re both older,’ says John Holloszy, M.D., a researcher at Washing ton University School of Medicine in St.Louis.
It’s never too late to take up weight training. According to Tufts University researchers, even people in their nineties were able to increase their leg strength by as much as 200 percent by working out on weight-training equipment. It takes only one weight workout per week to maintain strength well into old age once you’ve made your initial gains (which takes about ten weeks of lifting two or three times a week).