Endurance but not Resistance Training Has Anti-Aging Effects (IMAGE)

European Society of Cardiology

Endurance but not Resistance Training Has Anti-Aging Effects

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Take home image showing the effects of three types of exercise -- endurance training, high intensity interval training and resistance training -- on the way cells in the human body age, and they found that endurance and high intensity training both slowed or even reversed cellular aging, but that resistance training did not.

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Ulrich Laufs, Christian Werner and the <I>European Heart Journal</I>

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