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 DALLAS (AP) - Pumping a little iron can help elderly nursing home residents and heart failure patients gain strength for everyday life, the American Heart Association says, expanding on earlier advice.
"Those folks are capable of exercise training benefits and certainly resistance training is part of that," said Mark Williams, who led the group that wrote the new guidance published Monday online in the journal Circulation.
Williams said resistance training — whether it's lifting weights or doing sit-ups — should be used as a complement to aerobic exercise.
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