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Lifting for Your Brain: What Resistance Training Does Above the Neck

Lifting for Your Brain: What Resistance Training Does Above the Neck

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Most of us walk into the gym assuming the body is on duty and the brain has the hour off. It's the other way around. Every squat starts as an electrical signal. The awkward first weeks of a new movement aren't weak muscles, they're a nervous system learning a skill. Strength, it turns out, is partly something you know how to do.

That's the door into a bigger question: what does lifting do for the organ running the show? This episode covers the research connecting resistance training to executive function and memory, why exercise reaches the brain through blood vessels and blood sugar as much as through muscle, and a trial in adults over 55 that pitted heavy lifting against computerized brain training.

The brain training didn't win.

Then the part that matters most as we age: balance, falls, and why the speed of a correction can matter as much as raw leg strength. What can be trained, what can't, and where a fall in your seventies fits in the dementia picture.

Aging is inevitable. Weakness is not.

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