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A Different Scoreboard for Fitness After 50

What numbers come to mind when you think about fitness?   Weight. Calories. Miles. Repetitions. Pounds lifted.   Those numbers can tell us something, but after 50, they don’t always tell us the thing that matters most: Is getting stronger making your life easier?   Maybe you don’t care about...

How Do You Measure Strength When You Don’t Care How Much You Bench?

When people hear the word “strong,” they often picture a heavy barbell, a big bench press, or someone trying to set a personal record.   But what if you don’t care how much you can bench?   Maybe what you really want is to carry your suitcase through the airport...

Everyday Strength After 50: The Exercises You Already Do Every Day.

When you hear the words “strength training,” what comes to mind?   Maybe biceps. Abs. Leg muscles. Machines with diagrams showing which body part you’re supposed to work.   There’s nothing wrong with thinking about muscles. But after 50, there’s another way to look at strength training that can make...

Everyday Strength After 50: The Exercises You Already Do Every Day.

You probably don’t think of getting out of a chair as exercise. Or carrying groceries from your car. Or stepping onto a curb while walking through downtown Stamford.   But your body doesn’t care what you call these things.   It still has to produce enough strength to stand. Control...

How to Progress Strength Training After 50: When Is It Time for More?

You’ve been doing the same exercise for a few weeks.   At first, you had to think about every part of it. Where do my feet go? How am I supposed to hold this weight? Am I doing this correctly?   Then one day, something changes.   The movement feels...

Same Exercise, 4 Different People: How Strength Training Is Modified After 50.

Imagine four people standing next to each other during a strength training session.   They’re all over 50. They’re all working on the same basic movement. But if you watched them, their exercises might look completely different.   One person sits down onto a higher bench. Another lowers toward a...

5 Things You Won’t See at a Strength Training Gym for Adults 50+

Sometimes the easiest way to explain what a gym feels like isn’t to tell you what’s there. It’s to tell you what’s not there.   If you haven’t exercised in years—or you’ve never particularly liked gyms—you may already have a picture in your head: loud workouts, people competing, complicated equipment,...