23/02/2026
5 Facts about Strength Training for Adults💪🏻💪🏻
1. As you age, you lose about 1% of muscle mass per year.
2. You also lose about 3% of your strength per year.
3. Lower muscle strength is associated with an increased risk in dementia, needing care, and mortality.
4. A study in Britain showed that adults who participated in strength training twice per week reduced their risk for all-cause mortality by 20%.
5. The same study showed that those adults reduced their risk for cancer mortality by 43%.
Strength training isn’t just for kids who want to run faster and jump higher. It’s also for working adults who want to live longer with a higher quality of life.
If you want to read more, look up “Resistance training - an underutilised drug available in everyone’s medicine cabinet” by Dr. Yorgi Mavros. That’s where we got all 5 facts.