Could lifting weights actually help you live longer?

Doing 90 minutes to two hours of weight training per week can greatly reduce the risk of an early death, according to new research.

Data gathered from decades-long studies suggested that carrying out regular resistance or weight training over an extended period can significantly lower the chance of death from heart disease and stroke.

The benefits also included reducing the risk of death from neurological disease.

Experts said it was further evidence that strength-based training can help prevent or delay poor health and could ease pressure on overstretched health services.

Kate Hogarth is only 28, but is already thinking about staying healthy later in life. She enjoys weight training and the confidence boost she feels it gives her now, but she also recognises the long term health benefits from it.

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Could lifting weights actually help you live longer?

Regular weight training can significantly reduce the risk of early death, research suggests.

Well...OF COURSE...lifting weights will cause you to live longer.

There is really no question on this score.

There are many examples, but one obvious example is this:

Lifting weights improves balance, physical balance.

Improved balance minimizes unexpected falls.

Unexpected falls, whether or not they might be fatal falls, leads to decreased days on Earth.

This is just one obvious example to prove the answer to the Topics's question is yes.