Dr. Layne Norton

And they had people over age 65.

do a year of either high intensity resistance training, meaning they were getting them within a few reps of failure on each set, moderate intensity, which was like body weight stuff, bands.

They were staying further away from failure, but they were doing some resistance or no resistance training, but they were active.

Like I think the average step count per day was like 9,500 in this cohort, which is actually pretty high.

So these were active older people.

So they did that and then they had follow-up.

They had follow-up at one year and then four years – and then three years after that.

So four years total.

And they actually looked at people who stopped resistance training for the three years after.

They still had better strength, better lean mass, better cross-sectional area.

Those – like yes, it –

Yeah.

They declined significantly.

Of course, the group that wasn't doing exercise declined significantly.

And even the group that did that one year of resistance training, four years after they started, had less visceral fat too.

So it's like one of the things people ask me is, I'm this age, am I too old to start?

Or I'm this, can I resist a trainer?

I do this.

Everybody, if your spinal cord works, you can resistance train and it's good for you.

And in fact, right across the street at University of Illinois, where I did my PhD in the exercise phys department, they were doing a study in frail elderly.