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Resistance training
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Only the group that lifted weights kept its diabetes-risk gain a year after the diet ended
221 women dieted to a healthy BMI, then regained about a third of it. Predicted heart and diabetes risk fell and then bounced back in every group but one: the arm that had added resistance training held on to its diabetes benefit.
Aug 31, 2026
Intervals ranked best for belly fat, but more was not better
Pooling 60 trials in 3,308 adults, researchers ranked four kinds of exercise against the fat packed around the organs. Intervals came top, and the dose-response curve turned back on itself past a moderate weekly load.
Aug 4, 2026
Light weights to failure grew more muscle than heavy ones
A 201-person trial in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise had untrained adults lift heavy or light until they could not manage another repetition. The light group gained slightly more muscle, about a millimeter of extra thickness.
Aug 1, 2026
Fast lifting built power in older adults, but not for everyone
A GeroScience trial put 36 middle-aged and older adults through 12 weeks of deliberately fast lifting. The gains came from force, and the speed gains went only to the slowest.
Aug 1, 2026