Resistance Training Is Medicine

Dear Colleagues,

Recent global estimates indicate that 30% of adults and 80% of adolescents do not meet the recommendations for aerobic physical activity. With concurrent global increases in sedentary behavior, physical inactivity is now estimated to be responsible for 3.2 million deaths and to cost healthcare systems worldwide INT$ 53.8 billion annually. Resistance training (e.g., weightlifting) is a more movement-varied, non-impact exercise modality that confers many health benefits independent of aerobic activity and that may be better tolerated by the general population with a high prevalence of sedentary behavior and overweight/obesity. However, resistance training is often overshadowed by aerobic activity in public health policy, if not omitted entirely. Therefore, urgent public health action is needed to increase priority and investment directed towards services that promote resistance training and decrease sedentary behavior both within health and other key sectors. Expanding the evidence base that demonstrates the health benefits of resistance training across all age groups will help achieve this. Accordingly, this Special Issue aims to provide selected contributions to advances in cardiometabolic, cardiovascular, mental, and weight-related health from resistance training.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• The effect of resistance training on cardiometabolic, cardiovascular, mental, and/or weight-related health;
• Mediators of resistance training and improved health outcomes;
• Resistance training and risk of chronic disease (e.g., type 2 diabetes, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), cardiovascular disease);
• Resistance training in the treatment of chronic disease;
• Resistance training for increasing physical activity/reducing sedentary behavior;
• The health benefits of pediatric resistance training.

Dr. Daniel J. McDonough
Guest Editor

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• resistance training
• resistance exercise
• physical activity
• sedentary behavior
• strength training
• chronic disease
• risk factors
• obesity
• physical health
• mental health