Miriam Schottland, 79, can bench press 90 pounds, putting women half her age – including the one writing this story – to shame. It wasn’t always this way. Although Schottland, an auto racing ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. -- Living in northern New York poses a unique challenge when training Fort Drum's "Mountain Warriors." Regardless of weather conditions, Soldiers must be able to complete physical ...

No matter how you feel about your age, you just can’t train like you’re 25 (or even 45) once you hit 60. But that doesn’t ...

Strength training isn't just for bodybuilders or young fitness enthusiasts. For seniors, it’s one of the most powerful ways to age well. After the age of 50, we naturally start losing muscle mass and ...

Older adults who received as few as 10 sessions of mental (cognitive) training showed improvements in reasoning ability and speed-of-processing when compared with untrained controls participants as ...

The answer could be yes, according to a promising study published in Innovation in Aging from University of Alabama at Birmingham Arts in Medicine. Compared with older adults living in single-dwelling ...

Functional leg training is one of my favorite topics because I believe that functional training lends itself perfectly to the lower body. Even though many of us have to sit a lot for work, people with ...