Power Wear Athletics weighted vest and shorts helps with bone density.

Activities that put stress on bones nudge bone -forming cells into action. Stress comes from tugging and pushing on bones that occurs with weight bearing exercises. The result is stronger, denser bones.

“We lose so much muscle as we age that by the time we’re 70, we only have about 50% to 55% of our muscle mass left,” says Beatrice Edwards, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and director of the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “That explains why we feel weak and tired as we age, and we can prevent some of that with weight training.”