As more women discover how good lifting makes them feel, more of them have written about their experiences in the weight room ...

Probably cardio, right? But weight lifting for weight loss shouldn’t be overlooked. Weight lifting isn’t just great for building muscle. It can help you lose fat, and combining weight lifting ...

There has been a prevailing sentiment that lifting weights isn’t good for a young body until the teenage years. There is some truth to that statement but let’s make a key distinction between ...

I wanted to be honest that my motivation for getting into lifting was being fixated on preserving attractiveness, hotness and losing weight. It wasn't like, "I just want to try this thing because ...

Figure 8 lifting straps are ideal for deadlifts, but shouldn't be used in lifts where you may need to release the weight quickly, like an Olympic lift. You might also come across hook straps ...

While a bench isn’t essential, it can certainly make things more comfortable for lifting weights, our tester also found when using the Mirafit folding weight bench (£99.99, Amazon.co.uk).

Getting older doesn’t mean getting weaker. In fact, senior weight lifting—that is, doing resistance training with machines and/or free weights in your 60s and beyond—offers physical and ...

Each exercise in the heavy weights group involved three sets of six to 12 repetitions, at between 70 per cent and 85 per cent of the maximum weight the person could lift, for each repetition.

I’ve been into weight lifting (two words) for a long time, but about six years ago I got into weightlifting (all one word). It turns out these are two very different things. Weight lifting ...