Up to 2 hours of weekly strength training helps you live longer
A 147,000-person study tracked exercise for three decades. The strength-training sweet spot is at 90 to 120 minutes a week. The strength-training sweet spot for a longer life How much strength training you should do to stay fit and healthy appears to have an upper limit. In a 30-year study of more than 147,000 adults, average age 54, researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that 90 to 120 minutes of weekly resistance work was linked to a 13% lower risk of dying from any cause. Beyond two hours, the benefit stopped accumulating. Th...
