Exercise isn’t just for the young. Dr Carlos De La Hoz highlights a 79-year-old woman lifting weights as the perfect example of healthy ageing.

While struggling through long jumps and lunges during a recent class at my boxing gym, the owner suggested I lift weights—heavyweights—to help build strength in my legs and protect my joints.

Pumping iron at 100 years old, Mary Coroneos is lifting weights, exercising with dumbbells and pulling resistance bands at the gym, where she’s a regular. She works out three times a week with her ...

Mary Coroneos has a busy schedule. By mid-afternoon, she's read through two newspapers, hit the gym, and gone to the beach. And she's been doing it since before many of us were even born. Coroneos ...

For years, we’ve been bombarded by the trope of aging gracefully—staying small, moving slowly, playing it safe in the gym and in life. But a growing number of women are rejecting that tired script and ...

For years, we’ve been bombarded by the trope of ageing gracefully—staying small, moving slowly, playing it safe in the gym and in life. But a growing number of women are rejecting that tired script ...

But even if it has become far more common to see women lifting weights, some trainers still meet women who are afraid to start. They're reluctant because they remember old warnings that weight ...