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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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 the same type of exercise program described in the claim and found it worked equally well for both healthy women and breast cancer survivors after menopause.

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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 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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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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For young women new to weight training, lifting weights until you can't do more reps (either 5-7 reps per set or 10-14 reps per set) three times a week for two months gives about the same muscle growth and strength gains, no matter which rep range you use.

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After 12 weeks of lifting weights, both strong and weak older women gained about the same amount of muscle—starting strength didn’t affect how much muscle they built.

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