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Zachary Gillen

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Assistant Professor of Exercise Physiology, Mississippi State University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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Steep Physical Decline With Age Is Not Inevitable – Here’s How Strength Training Can Change The Trajectory Your Health

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Raise your hand if you regularly find yourself walking up a flight of stairs. What about carrying heavy bags of groceries? How about picking up your child or grandchild? Most of us would raise our hands to doing at least one of those weekly, or even daily. As people age, it can become more and […]

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Imagine you’ve just completed a tough upper-body workout. Your muscles feel a bit tired, but all in all you’re able to go about the rest of your day just fine. The next morning, you wake up and realize the back of your shoulder blade feels stiff. When you rub your shoulder muscles, it feels like […]

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