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Lifting weights is one of the best ways to increase your level of health. It´s especially important to stay strong as you enter your middle years.

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If you´re a baby boomer, chances are you´re already working to take care of your health. You´re probably scarfing down those fresh salads and making an effort to walk everywhere you go. These are great things to do, but if you are not lifting weights, you are missing one of the most important parts of your overall fitness program. Whether you´re a boomer male or female, weight training is an essential part of maintaining youthful vigor. Here are five things you can expect to accomplish by lifting weights.

1. Go from flab to fab. Face it. Time and gravity cause our bodies to, well, sag in a few places. Areas that used to be taut and firm become soft and flabby. Weight training is one of the best forms of exercise for dealing with soft flesh. The way it works is that lifting weights properly will increase your muscle mass in whatever part of your body you are working out. Muscle burns more calories even when at rest than fat does, so you burn fat while those muscles gain strength and definition.

2. Increase the density of your bones. This is of particular interest to women, who have a greater risk of osteoporosis in mid-life than men do. Studies have found that even elderly people could improve their bone density by following a simple but methodical program of weight lifting. It doesn´t take but about 15 minutes twice a week to see results. The trick is...

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