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Elaine LaLanne is spending the days since her 100th birthday with the same healthy habits she’s been cultivating for decades: exercising every day and eating a nutritious diet.

Experts share a few tools, from dumbbells to resistance bands to cooling towels, to help women get stronger

Expert-Recommended No gym, no hour needed: a trainer’s 12-minute strength routine after 50.

If you’ve ever started a new workout routine with the best intentions only to find yourself skipping sessions by week two, you’re not alone. I’m the type to get trapped in the same cycle of burnout, where I go hard for a couple of weeks, feel exhausted, feel guilty, and repeat. For me, what finally…

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Expert-Recommended Can you push, pull, squat, and balance like this after 50? Take the five-move test.

You hit your stride on the elliptical machine and the electronic readout says your heart rate has reached zone 2 – the “fat-burning” zone. Is this the best zone for weight loss? Maybe you’re more focused on cardiovascular health. Should you strive to reach a different zone?

Twenty minutes, twice a week — that’s the promise behind The Exercise Coach, where artificial intelligence and robotics are helping people rethink what a workout can look like.

When the physician and psychiatrist Leonard Schwartz surveyed his life at middle-age, he was not particularly happy with the state of himself as a physical specimen. Decades of smoking, overwork, and living a sedentary lifestyle had left him with high blood pressure, chronic back pain, and a generally subpar level of energy.

Doing strength training exercises at least two days a week is a great way to support your cardiovascular health. For starters, adding muscle mass benefits your heart by helping your body burn more fat and better regulate both your blood sugar and blood pressure.