Getting older doesn’t mean getting weaker. In fact, senior weight lifting —that is, doing resistance training with machines and/or free weights in your 60s and beyond—offers physical and mental ...

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 ...

Mona Noyes, 86, works out with trainer Emily Socolinsky at Fivex3 Training in Baltimore. (Kyna Uwaeme for NPR) BALTIMORE — On a recent weekday morning, weightlifter Mona Noyes walks up to a platform ...

BALTIMORE — On a recent weekday morning, weightlifter Mona Noyes walks up to a platform and positions herself to deadlift, with the help of a trainer. At just over 5 feet tall with curled white hair, ...