Weight Training Shown To Have Health Benefits
Are you kidding me? Do we really need to perform scientific research — even on obscure test groups — to find such obvious data?
“Our study showed that upper body strength and muscles improved more than lower body,” Ohira said. Since previous studies have found aerobic exercise such as walking is also good for improving the quality of life in breast-cancer survivors, Ohira said he now believes that adding weight training to aerobic exercise “could improve the quality of life even more.”
The women who trained with weights had increases in lean muscle mass, compared with those who did not. Those who pumped iron also “had a moderately improved quality of life,” Ohira said.
How much money did we, the taxpayers, pay for this research? Of course weight training and aerobic exercise will result in improved quality of life!
