Doctor shares one exercise to do twice a week in order to stay fit and healthy

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A health expert has lifted the lid on what types of exercise actually work best to keep us healthy, and he says there's one thing that's particularly effective.Dr Daniel Lieberman, who is a Harvard University professor specialising in human evolutionary biology, recently appeared on Steven Bartlett's podcast Diary of a CEO to talk all things health.He explained that he'd always been into walking and running in order to stay trim, but hadn't considered weight training until much more recently - and he regrets not starting it sooner.Bristol Live reports that in the podcast episode, Dr Lieberman explained that we all need to be doing regular weight exercise to keep our bodies in good shape as we get older.

He said: "I've become more serious about doing some strength training. I've always loved walking and running and endurance activities and I've always hated doing weights, I just don't like it -I'm not a very strong person. "People tend to do what they like, you get reinforcement from it.

The more I studied the importance of resistance training, the more I realised the importance of doing weights, especially as you age, I've started kicking myself for being lazy about that."He now aims to do two 'good strength workouts every week'."Especially as you age, the loss of muscle mass can be really debilitating," he told the podcast. "As people get older they tend to lose muscle and as people do that they become frail and you lose functional capacity and that starts off a vicious cycle."Once that happens, you're less likely to be physically active.

then your muscles waste away more, it's very debilitating"Ageing is just a clock ticking on, nothing we can do about age, but senescence the way the body degrades as we get old.