Study Suggests Women With Osteoporosis Should Do High-Intensity Lifts.

reports on a growing movement that promotes high-intensity lifts for women with osteoporosis. A study of 101 postmenopausal women at the Bone Clinic in Brisbane found that high-intensity weight training and jumping increased lumbar-spine bone-mineral density nearly three percent over eight months, compared with a loss of 1.2 percent for a control group of women who did low-intensity workouts, the Journal says. The findings were published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.