Life expectancy in the United States increased from 77.4 years in 2022 to approximately 78.4 in 2023, then to 79.25 in 2024 and is projected to be 79.4 years in 2025.

It should be noted that the expectations for the quality of living in the final decade of life have changed. Visions of playing bingo, book clubs and other sedentary activities are being replaced with traveling abroad, gardening and participating in 70 and over softball leagues.

Strength training has been used by older people to improve their performance in these activities, and many point to their workout routine as a method to slow down the ever-present biological clock.

One of the most cited and foundational research papers on the positive effects of strength training to offset aging in seniors was written in 1990 and p

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