When older men and women over 60 start lifting weights, women tend to get stronger faster relative to how strong they were at the start—especially in their arms and legs—compared to men doing the same workout.

When older men and women over 60 do strength training, the men tend to get stronger in their arms and legs than the women do, even when they’re doing the same workouts.

When older men and women over 60 do strength training, men tend to gain more total muscle mass than women, but when you account for their starting size, both sexes improve at about the same rate.

When older adults (60+) do strength training, men and women gain muscle and get stronger in basically the same way—no big differences between the sexes.

Even people in their 50s and 70s can get much stronger and activate their muscles better after 12 weeks of heavy weight training — age doesn’t stop them from improving.

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.