If you want to lift your grandkids, get up the stairs, haul groceries, and conquer all of life’s adventures with confidence as you age, here’s the science-backed secret: lift weights. Yep, those ...

For years, women were told to train differently because of their hormones. New research suggests the fundamentals of building ...

Nutritionist Deepsikha Jain shares three simple lifestyle habits that can help ambitious women improve their long term health ...

Women who lift weights may have a lower risk of major heart disease, especially when combined with aerobic exercise, ...

Key TakeawaysStrength training might improve heart health among womenWomen were less likely to suffer a heart attack or ...

During her first year of college, Elisabeth Bradley was inspired to try weightlifting after she followed a woman tracking her fitness transformation on social media, one barbell at a time. MAHA’s ...

My name is Cori Ritchey, and I am an exercise physiology nerd turned fitness journalist, and the fitness editor at Women’s Health. When I’m not writing, editing, and researching fitness, I’m teaching ...

When many people think of women over 50, they imagine slowing down, covering up, fading into the background. But across gyms—and even onstage—a whole new and unexpected generation is lifting, flexing, ...

For years, the idea of heavy weightlifting conjured up images of women strutting on stage in string bikinis with tanned, well-oiled skin and a Michelangelo-level chisel to their muscles. Strength ...

Thamar Gisele Mengue of Cameroon prepares to lift the weights during the women's heavyweight para powerlifting final at the Commonwealth Games at The NEC in Birmingham, England, in 2022. [AP photo] ...

After a two-year plateau, I built muscle within two months.