How lifting weights can make your skin tighter
Resistance training rejuvenates aging skin by reducing circulating inflammatory factors and enhancing dermal extracellular matrices
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Working out with weights or cardio can make your skin look younger, but they do it in different ways.
No biological mechanisms were identified in this study. This may be an epidemiological, observational, or survey-based study that reports associations rather than proposing causal biological pathways.
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Not medical advice. For informational purposes only. Always consult a healthcare professional. Terms
Working out with weights or cardio can make your skin look younger, but they do it in different ways.
No biological mechanisms were identified in this study. This may be an epidemiological, observational, or survey-based study that reports associations rather than proposing causal biological pathways.
Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analyses
Max 100Randomized Controlled Trials
Max 90Cohort Studies
Max 72Case-Control Studies
Max 58Cross-Sectional Studies
Max 44Case Reports & Case Series
Max 30Expert Opinion & Narrative Reviews
Max 548 / 90
Evidence Score
Participants are randomly assigned to treatment or control groups, minimizing bias. Considered the gold standard for testing whether an intervention causes an effect.
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Nishikori S, Yasuda J, Murata K, Takegaki J, Harada Y, Shirai Y, Fujita S
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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.
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.
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.
Working out—whether you're running or lifting weights—can make your skin firmer and more elastic by boosting the production of key skin-building proteins, and lifting weights does something extra: it actually makes the skin layer thicker.
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.