do it slowly and smoothly. If you don't, you're simply wasting your time.
Weight training is only for young athletes or so they thought during the earlier decades because people who weren't young and energetic thought they to old, fat, or weak. In today's world people of all ages should be weight training. If we don't work out, we lose muscle mass as we grow older. And believe it or not, this process begins kicking in at about 25! (Phillips 37, 1999). During this time fat appears in the common places and more often then not, for males, it can double within the next 30 years from 18 percent to 36 percent. During the same time, the average women can go from 33 percent to 44 percent. Well to prove that myth wrong, "a study at Tufts University showed that among a group of men between 60 and 72 years old, a three-day a week weight-training program caused an average increase in flexibility and strength of up to 200 percent" (Phillips 38, 1999).
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