‘I feel euphoric’: Meet the women who started lifting weights in their sixties 🏋️♀️ Since she started weight training, Sybil Kretzmer, now 71, no longer needs pills for her arthritis and her asthma has eased
“Weight training promotes heart health, metabolic health , and maintains or builds muscle and bone strength,” says sports and exercise medicine consultant Dr Rebecca Robinson from the Marylebone Health Clinic.still important to train into later years
The latest research also shows a bigger benefit of training on longevity in women than men. One of the reasons for that is because of the way strength training counteracts the impact of the menopause. “Hormonal changes in later life, like. Weight-bearing exercise maintains that mass and is crucial to avoiding osteoporosis, but studies also suggest that peri and post-menopausal women who consistently lift weights have improved sleep and reduced menstrual symptoms.
For the past year, Dr Nelson has been regularly lifting dumbbells at home as part of Best’s online fitness programme,. “I’ve graduated from very weedy weights to slightly less weedy weights – although still not lots by what Nancy [her daughter] can do,” says Nelson. She now holds the world record for her age and body weight categories, but that’s not as important as the relationships she has formed through the sport. “I started and maintain a club for women where all are welcome – cis, trans and people with a fluid gender identity.
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