Researchers followed 147,374 people for up to 30 years and found that 90 to 119 minutes of strength training a week — roughly two gym sessions — was linked to a 27% lower risk of dying from neurological disease and a 19% lower risk of cardiovascular death, with no further longevity benefit apparent beyond two hours a week

Researchers followed 147,374 people for up to 30 years and found that 90 to 119 minutes of strength training a week — roughly two gym sessions — was linked to a 27% lower risk of dying from neurological disease and a 19% lower risk of cardiovascular death, with no further longevity benefit apparent beyond two hours a week

body.single-post h1.entry-title,body.single-post .entry-title{text-transform:none!important;} A large observational study reports that adults who did about 90 to 119 minutes of resistance training a week had lower mortality rates than those who reported none, including lower rates of cardiovascular and neurological disease death. The finding comes from a British Journal of Sports Medicine paper led by Yiwen Zhang of the Harvard T.H. Chan School …