If you've been putting off strength training because you don't have an hour to spare... here's some good news. A new study out of Penn State College of Medicine found that adults over 65 saw real, measurable improvements in strength and balance after doing just four minutes of resistance work a day. Not four hours a week. Four minutes a day. Researchers put 97 adults, average age 74, through a simple routine: push-ups, chair stands, rows, and stair stepping, done for 30 seconds on and 30...

A new nine-year study out of Australia just handed us one of the clearest "why" statements we've had in a while for how we program at ADDICTED. Researchers followed more than 8,000 Brisbane adults, ages 40 to 64, for almost a decade. They checked in five separate times, tracking who did aerobic exercise, who did strength training, who did both, and who did neither. Then they watched what happened to those people's health over the years that followed. The results are hard to argue with. Adults...

If your knees or hips have started talking to you more than they used to, you're not alone... and the instinct is to do less. Rest them. Baby them. Wait for the ache to calm down before you get back under a bar or back on your feet. New research says that instinct, understandable as it is, is often the wrong move. A landmark Cochrane review, the gold standard for evaluating medical evidence, looked at all the research on exercise and knee osteoarthritis and found something worth repeating:...