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@worshiper1994 I love that they addressed post-menopausal women! That's a cohort that has been criminally ignored in the research. These benefits are intriguing for this population.

@gary687 This absolutely. 2 to 3 minutes seems like a decent amount of time for somebody else to work in with you.

@karin70 OMG. One of my pet peeves, these idiots who think they know better because they have a Y chromosome. I work in a gym, and I have had to intervene a few times when a man and woman (often a couple) are in the gym and he is trying to get her to do something stupid or unsafe. One idiot...

@evangelisttooti Also water - important component for recovery.

@melissa75 Absolutely. It's funny, the research studies where they first started to find definitive evidence of this are at least a decade old. It takes a long time for information like this to make its way out to the general public.

@melissa75 Just a heads up - you don't want to do passive stretching (held stretches) before you do strength training. It's well documented that stretching triggers mechanisms in the muscles that actually make them weaker. Before you lift, do light cardio movements, going through full ROM of...

@alfie13 So the 5 or so minutes of stretching of large muscle groups that we do at the end of a group fitness class is pretty much spot on for how one should stretch! It's nice to have these references, because I get asked that question a lot.