Lifting weights, the secret to better skin, new study shows!
Resistance training could be the "surprisingly effective" secret to achieving fresher, younger skin, a new study has revealed.
Published in Scientific Reports, the research found that aerobic exercise and weight training altered gene expression and improved the underlying health of facial skin cells and tissue.
People`s skin grew "more youthful at a cellular level" after they began exercising," exercise scientist at Japan`s Ritsumeikan University, Satoshi Fujita, who oversaw the study, told the Washington Post.
The most pronounced effects, he added, occurred when people lifted weights.”
TODAY IN HISTORY - 19 April - 🏃♀️🙌🏼✨♥️
Only men were allowed to run marathons for decades.
Banned from official long-distance running events because she was a woman, Bobbi Gibb ran the Boston Marathon disguised as a man on April 19, 1966.
But dressed in a hooded jumper and her brother`s Bermuda shorts, Gibb entered the famous race.
By the end of the race, she had ditched the jumper and crossed the finish line faster than two-thirds of the male competitors.
Her race was front-page news in Boston the next day, but officials were outraged.
At the time, it was believed long distance running was harmful to women, and no event longer than 3km was allowed.
The following year, Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to enter the Boston Marathon as an officially registered competitor - though under a deliberately androgynous "KV Switzer".
But race manager Jock Semple tried to tackle her to stop Switzer running.
Switzer`s boyfriend, a nationally ranked hammer thrower, knocked Semple to the ground so she could keep running.
"I knew if I quit, nobody would ever believe that women had the capability to run 26-plus miles.
"If I quit, everybody would say it was a publicity stunt.
"If I quit, it would set women`s sports back, way back, instead of forward. If I quit, I`d never run Boston.
"If I quit, Jock Semple and all those like him would win. My fear and humiliation turned to anger.”
Gibb, who had entered in secret that year as well, finished a full hour ahead of Switzer.
A women`s marathon event was not added to the Olympics until 1984.
Gibb would be named the grand marshal of the Boston Marathon in 2016.
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