# Why don’t you lift weights? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** diet-weight-loss\ **Created:** [August 15, 2020, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-don-t-you-lift-weights/918144 "2020-08-15T01:48:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 632
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2024, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-don-t-you-lift-weights/918144/632 "2024-02-26T04:48:09Z")
It’s a woman’s world! [Sex Differences in Association of Physical Activity With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality - PubMed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38383092/#:~:text=Conclusions%3A%20Women%20compared%20with%20men,of%20leisure%2Dtime%20physical%20activity). > [@](#): > > … Women compared with men derived greater gains in all-cause and cardiovascular mortality risk reduction from equivalent doses of leisure-time physical activity. … In 140 minutes a week women get the mortality reduction improvements that it takes men 300 minutes a week to achieve. And they can get better from there! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-don-t-you-lift-weights/918144)._