For individuals over 50, the best resistance training approach is one that can be performed with low pain, consistency, and enjoyment.

“if you're either coming into it with previous injuries if they're worried about injury especially kind of in the older population is you know is that where the stability work can be much more effective is it if you haven't lifted much weight start lower and work on kind of positioning and how the movement works or how should people think about the injury piece”

“just lifting something is going to have such a massive difference compared to doing nothing that it really almost doesn't matter what you do when you start as long as you start as long as it's not like a such a low load that there's no discomfort whatsoever”

“so again that's kind of where like meeting people where they are is really important so yeah I'm going to try and find exercises that are low pain that they enjoy enjoy being relative um and then again like even when people were starting out like we talked about proximity to failure I'm not taking somebody who's older close to failure the first time they lift weights like no way”

“yeah I'd probably probably start with lighter weights and also start with like movements that don't cause them pain or cause them less pain right like trying to find stuff that um whether it's exercises tempos range of motion like just getting it started because I know over time as those tissues adapt they're going to be able to do more and more complex movements”