Can You Safely Do Resistance Training When You're Old?

It's no secret that as we age almost everyone loses physical strength. There is a physiological reason for this, but we know that it comes from a shrinking of muscle fibers, called atrophy, or the complete loss of muscle tissue, known as sacropenia. Is this loss a muscle the reason we stop doing resistant training, or is it a self-fulfilling prophecy that since we realize we are getting older and therefore weaker we stop training. And of course we become weaker. Read the full article.