My wife and I use free weights three times a week, in addition to swimming 45 minutes a day and walking another fifty minutes. I'm skeptical about Alex Kuczynski's report on slow lifting (under fashion?). And so is Clarence Bass, although all I can say about his pic is ewwww. Maybe later I'll look for the article by Richard Winett that he mentions. I found another, "Potential Benfits of Resistance Training", not available to the hoi polloi.