Contrary to popular belief, a new Australian study of men and women over 50 has found that strength training—also known as resistance or weight training—benefits older women just as much as older men. “Historically, people tended to believe that men adapted to a greater degree from resistance training compared to women,” exercise science lecturer at UNSW Medicine & Health and senior author of the study Amanda Hagstrom said. In fact, men are likely to get bigger muscles, but women benefit from lifting weights at the gym, too, according to the study published in Dec. 2020. Hagstrom said the team found “no sex differences in changes in relative muscle size or upper body strength in older adults” and that “women benefit just as much as men in terms of relative improvement.” They shed light on the finding that older men tended to grow bigger muscles, but older women saw the most significant increases …