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Doing strength exercises like lifting weights for 16 weeks can make the skin of middle-aged Japanese women just a tiny bit thicker and boost a specific protein that helps keep skin firm—something that doesn’t happen with activities like walking or cycling.

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Resistance training rejuvenates aging skin by reducing circulating inflammatory factors and enhancing dermal extracellular matrices

Randomized Controlled Trial
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2023 Jun 23

This study found that lifting weights for 16 weeks made the skin thicker and turned on a specific skin-repair gene called biglycan in middle-aged Japanese women — and aerobic exercise like walking didn’t do the same thing.

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Resistance training rejuvenates aging skin by reducing circulating inflammatory factors and enhancing dermal extracellular matrices

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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-37207-9

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Doing strength training for 16 weeks can make the skin of middle-aged Japanese women just a tiny bit thicker and boost a protein that helps keep skin firm—like giving your skin a little anti-aging boost.

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Different kinds of exercise help your skin in different ways: lifting weights boosts certain skin-building molecules, while cardio boosts others—so your skin might get healthier in unique ways depending on whether you lift or run.

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Doing regular strength or cardio workouts for 16 weeks can make your skin tighter and healthier-looking by improving the support structure underneath it.

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Working out with weights can lower certain inflammatory chemicals in the blood of middle-aged women, and those chemicals normally make a skin protein called biglycan — so when they drop, biglycan drops too, which might help slow down skin aging.

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