Muscular Strength Decrease Death In Men

Muscular strength in men is linked to lower risk of mortality. They recommend that people don't cut out cardiovascular fitness for just strength training but for each to be done.

Muscular Strength in Men Linked to Lower All-Cause and Cancer Mortality

July 15, 2008 - Medscape - by Laurie Barclay

Muscular strength is linked with death from all causes and cancer in men, even after adjustment for cardiorespiratory fitness, according to the results of a prospective cohort study reported in the July 12 Online First issue of the BMJ.

"Resistance exercise training increases muscular strength and is currently prescribed by major health organisations for improving health and fitness," write Jonatan R. Ruiz, from Karolinska Institutet in Huddinge, Sweden, and colleagues. "Likewise, cardiorespiratory fitness provides strong and independent prognostic information about the overall risk of illness and death in adults across a broad spectrum of ages. . . . Several prospective studies have shown that muscular strength is inversely associated with all cause mortality."

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What is Better? Single or Multiple Set Strength Training

Repeated Sets or Single Set of Resistance Training - A systematic review

Sofia Bågenhammar, Eva Ekvall Hansson. Advances in Physiotherapy, Volume 9, Issue 4 2007 , pages 154 - 160

The aim of the study was to review studies concerning single-set and multiple-set resistance training. Twenty-six articles were found, 19 randomized controlled trials and seven studies without randomization process. Out of the 26 articles, 11 showed similar increases in strength when comparing number of sets, mostly one set compared with three sets. Eight of the articles showed a greater increase when training with multiple sets. In four of the articles, the comparison was made between single-set training programmes, multiple-set programmes and periodized multiple-set programmes, showing superior results with periodized training. None of the articles reported superior strength gain in the single-set training group. There was no difference in outcome when comparing articles with trained subjects to articles with untrained subjects. It seems that in order to be physically active and staying fit, the use of single-set training is sufficient. However, to gain the greatest possible strength, the use of multiple-set training seems to be appropriate.

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Keywords - Strength Training,

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