🏋️ Fitness & Wellness Aug 20, 2026 · Matt Myers

Is it too late to start strength training at 70? (No. Here’s what happens when you do.)

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Is it too late to start strength training at 70? (No. Here’s what happens when you do.)
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No, it isn’t too late.
People in their 70s, 80s, and 90s get meaningfully stronger when they start strength training, and beginners tend to see the biggest response to training.
You also need far less than you’d guess: 30 to 60 minutes of lifting spread across a week is a great starting point.
Here’s the science, three ways to begin, and a client who started at 57 and is still going at 77.

A reader wrote me this week. Her whole email was one sentence:


“Is it too late i

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