Lifting weights cuts risk of Heart Attack & Stroke in Mature Adults!

Lifting weights for less than an hour a week may reduce your risk for a heart attack or stroke by 40 to 70 percent, according to a study by Iowa State University. Spending more than an hour in the weight room did not yield any additional benefit.

The study – which included almost 13,000 adults (average age 47) – found the benefits of strength training are independent of running, walking or other aerobic activity. This is great news for people who can't do cardio for 30 minutes a day five days a week (as recommended by the CDC) due to health reasons or physical limitations, and for those who find cardio training too boring.

"People may think they need to spend a lot of time lifting weights, but just two sets of bench presses that take less than 5 minutes could be effective," according to the study’s lead author, DC Lee, associate professor of kinesiology at Iowa State.

www.news.iastate.edu/news/2018/11/13/resistancecvd