Weightlifting is good for your heart and it doesn’t take much
Health and Wellness News
11/13/2018
Weightlifting for less than an hour a week may reduce your risk for a heart attack or stroke by 40 to 70 percent, according to a new study led by DC (Duck-chul) Lee, an Iowa State University associate professor in kinesiology.
“People may think they need to spend a lot of time lifting weights, but just two sets of bench presses that take less than 5 minutes could be effective,” Lee said.
Spending more than an hour in the weight room did not yield any additional benefit, the researchers found.
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