Doing strength training for 12 weeks may help postmenopausal women — both healthy ones and breast cancer survivors — move better, walk farther, and get up and go faster.

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Skeletal muscle mass, strength, and physical performance gains are similar between healthy postmenopausal women and postmenopausal breast cancer survivors after 12 weeks of resistance exercise training

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2024 Nov 23

The study looked at 12 weeks of strength training in postmenopausal women, including breast cancer survivors, and found their physical performance got better—just like the claim says.

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Skeletal muscle mass, strength, and physical performance gains are similar between healthy postmenopausal women and postmenopausal breast cancer survivors after 12 weeks of resistance exercise training

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DOI: 10.1007/s00520-024-08973-7

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Doing strength training for 12 weeks can boost muscle strength by about a quarter to nearly half in women after menopause — whether they're healthy or have survived breast cancer.

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Doing strength training three times a week for three months helps both healthy postmenopausal women and breast cancer survivors gain muscle and get stronger — and both groups benefit about the same.

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If postmenopausal women do strength training three times a week for three months, their thigh muscles get about 5 to 8% thicker — whether or not they’ve had breast cancer.

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Lifting weights or doing strength exercises helps healthy adults walk faster, stay balanced, get up from a chair more easily, and move around better compared to not exercising at all.

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If you take a one-week break from lifting weights halfway through a 9-week workout plan, you might lose a little bit of your strength gains in your legs, but your muscles won’t shrink any more than if you kept going, and your endurance and power won’t be affected.

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