Strength Training for Older People – Hard Effort Matters – BionicOldGuy

I found an important study on Clarence Bass’ website Here. A study A study of strength training in retirees found that hard training is essential for maintaining muscle mass. The study compared a group that did heavy strength training with a moderate-intensity group and a control group that didn’t do any training. Muscle mass was effectively maintained in the high resistance group only after four years. The high resistance group used resistance machines, while the medium resistance group used resistance bands and bodyweight exercises. I want to be clear that you can still lift heavy weights with resistance bands, you just need to use more of them.

Conclusion: Go heavy! Clarence emphasizes this again and again and I have mentioned it many times. It’s nice to see this proven specifically for us older people in a clear study like this.