One year of high-intensity resistance training can preserve leg strength in older adults for three years after cessation.

“Heavy resistance training for one year has shown to have lasting benefits, preserving leg strength in older adults up to four years later.”

“they did uh a randomized control trial I think it was in a Nordic country I want to say Denmark and they had people over AG 65 do a year of either high intensity resistance training meaning they were getting them within a few reps of failure on each set moderate intensity which was like body weight stuff banss they were staying further away from failure but they were doing some resistance or no no no resistance training but they were active like I think the uh average Step count per day was like 9500 in this cohort which is actually pretty high so these were active older people so they did that and then they had followup they had follow up at one year and then four years L and then three years after that so four years total and they actually looked at people who stopped resistance training for the three years after they still had in better strength better lean mass better cross-sectional area those like yes it they had less than their Peak after they've been doing it for a year but it had this protective effect against age related Decline and sarcopenia”