It’s no secret that exercise is great for us physically and mentally, but it turns out the skin benefits of exercising go beyond a post-workout “glow.” While aerobic training has been found to improve skin health, recent research finds that weightlifting could be even more effective in rejuvenating skin.
A recent Japanese study divided a group of 61 healthy, sedentary, middle-aged women into two groups who exercised twice a week for 16 weeks—one group did only an aerobic training program, the other only a resistance training program using weight machines—in an attempt to differentiate the effects of each type of training on the skin.
“The effects of aerobic training and resistance training on our body are known to be different, i.e., resistance training specifically induces muscle hypertrophy [increased muscle size], whereas aerobic training improves cardiovascular fitness,” says Satoshi Fujita, PhD, study co-author and professor with the
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