Discover five joint-friendly exercises you can do at home to build strength and maintain independence after 60.

Strength training exercises like squats, heel raises, and bicep curls can help older adults maintain muscle. Keeping strong as you age means you can more easily continue doing daily activities on your ...

Strength training is the single most effective tool for maintaining independence as we age, but doing it incorrectly can lead to injuries that set you back months. Here is the expert-backed guide to ...

Strength-training comes with a host of benefits regardless of your age, from more toned muscles to a speedier metabolism and more. But this form of exercise (also called resistance training) can be ...

Discover six simple at-home exercises that help seniors maintain strength, protect joints, and make daily tasks easier.

Here’s the message from Dr. Marcas Bamman, a physiologist with decades of research into aging who preaches the benefits of weight-resistance training for those who are getting up there. We’re talking ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Aging doesn’t have to be synonymous with losing strength. The key to maintaining it as you age? Heavy ...

Lifting heavy weights around the time of retirement could preserve leg strength into older age, research suggests. People naturally lose muscle function as they get older, and experts see faltering ...

For the first time in the Catholic Church’s two-millennia history, an American has been named pope. Father Thomas Flowers, S.J., Ph.D., an assistant professor of Ignatian Formation at St. Louis ...

If you want to lift your grandkids, get up the stairs, haul groceries, and conquer all of life’s adventures with confidence as you age, here’s the science-backed secret: lift weights. Yep, those ...