At least, that’s my rationale for why everywhere I looked online last year, the merits of strength training “for the older woman” were being flagged. But through one year of doing small group training sessions three times a week, here are seven things I’ve learned:1. Her study, High Intensity Strength Training in Nonagenarians, which showed how in just eight weeks they became stronger and more mobile, began to change the medical view of older people’s frailty. However, being unable to think of anything else except keeping going during strength and conditioning sessions was a novelty. The circumstances that drove me to start strength training in small group classes were changed utterly by the death of my husband, Philip, in June.
