Stronger with Age

04/02/2026

Strength Training Awareness Day is just two months away!!

This year’s theme is ‘Strength training: it’s more than muscle strength.’

Strength training is most often associated with getting ‘big and bulky’ or being ‘only for athletes’ and this can be especially unappealing for those who are thinking about getting started on their strength training journey.

But we know that strength training participation and increased muscle strength provide benefits well beyond the aesthetic or improved sports performance.

This year on 04.04.2026, let’s share our images and stories around the social, mental, psychological, physiological, physical, and everyday performance benefits we’ve seen or experienced as a result of strength training participation.

Together, we can build a new narrative around strength training.

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Strength Training Awareness Day 2026 will be our third annual Strength Training Awareness Day. Strength Training Awareness Day was founded in 2024 by Dr. Ashley Gluchowski, CSEP-CEP, CSPS and STRONGER at HOME.

02/02/2026

Did you know we have a YouTube channel?

Who’s looking to start or learn more about strength training this year? Not sure where or how to start? Are you having hard time deciphering the information from the misinformation?

Here at STRONGER at HOME, we have taken the science and turned it into easy to follow, practical strength training information and advice.

STRONGER at HOME is evidence-based information you can trust, just visit

YouTube.com/

And leave your comments, questions, and suggestions for new video topics!

13/01/2026

Has your physician ever measured your handgrip strength?

With all the research evidence and media hype around the positive associations between handgrip strength and health biomarkers, is assessing handgrip strength as yet another ‘vital sign to health’ something we should seriously begin to explore, adopt, or implement into real-world and often low resourced settings?

With this exploratory study, we took the first steps in investigating if this idea could even be theoretically feasible in today’s constraints of primary care appointments.

Equally important, we also explored whether this would be acceptability to those on the receiving end of such a quick introduction to handgrip strength and the muscle-strengthening guidelines.

We found that awareness is there! As people become more and more aware of the need to build muscle, bone, and joint strength, many of the barriers now exist further downstream, in what to do and how to actually do it.

Taking just 5 minutes to assess grip strength and signposting to evidence-based resources could be just the prompt needed, especially for those patients in the contemplation and preparation phases of behaviour change.

We believe very brief interventions with the muscle-strengthening guidelines is a promising area to further explore.

Link to paper in story

19/12/2025

I am honoured to share that I have been selected as a 2026 Implementation Science Fellow! 🎓

This fellowship by Centre for Evidence and Implementation Science at the University of Birmingham comes at the perfect time to reflect on my implementation, evaluation, and sustainability aspirations with STRONGER with AGE.

I am excited to build my knowledge and skills in Implementation Science and take this experience and learning back to the School of Health & Society at The University of Salford where I hope I can lead the way in bridging the gap between evidence and practice in Strength Training for Public Health.

Stay tuned for this ride - coming January 2026

19/12/2025

We are recruiting for two new research studies!! If you currently wear any type of activity tracker or smart watch, or if you used to wear one, we’d love to hear from you!

16/12/2025

Thank you so much, Kath Hudson, for featuring STRONGER with AGE’s collaboration with and in 🏋🏼‍♀️💪🏻

We are just getting started 🥳🥳🥳

10/12/2025

Forgot to put on your smartwatch this morning?

Feel like without the data, physical activity and exercise just doesn’t count?

Does the thought of taking it off or it running out of battery mid-stride make you anxious?

You are not alone.

You’re going to want to read our latest study - incredibly relevant and absolutely fascinating takes on wearables and the emotional conflict we go through as users.

Are the extra thousand steps enough to justify the emotional toll?

Do we really want to trade autonomous motivation for external rewards and feedback?

Should we trust the statistics over our own intuition?

Link to preprint in my stories

04/12/2025

I started a YouTube channel!

The mission is simple, get everyone by bridging the gap between research and practice.

If you’re interested in Strength Training for Public Health, please do subscribe.

And if you’re also in this space, let me know by mentioning your channel or let me know what you want to see in the comments below👇

If you’re interested in how to get started with strength training (or need a place to signpost your clients, members, or patients), don’t forget ’s YouTube channel

01/12/2025

Personal Trainer? Exercise Physiologist? GP? Nurse? Allied healthcare professional?

RESEARCH NEEDS YOU!!

I have a few ongoing research studies looking for insights that only you can provide!

Thank you to all my participants so far. Conversations have been incredibly illuminating. Please contact me for more details if you can spare ~45 minutes of your time (on Teams).

25/11/2025

FACT: Women are less likely to participate in strength training when compared to men.

AND

FACT: The gym can act as a major barrier to participation.

BUT

We can (easily) do something about this!

So we did!

Our first pilot of the STRONGER with AGE programme proved that women who never participated in strength training and never held a gym membership can and do thrive in small, fully supervised, women only groups!!

In our participant’s own words:
 
‘It’s an excellent centre and using a gym can be really daunting, not only for women but for women of a certain age – this programme has and continues to give us the confidence to attend.’

21/11/2025

So excited to roll this out in Wigan, Greater Manchester 🤩💪🏻

21/11/2025

✨✨✨Dreams do come true✨✨✨

Ever since my first post-doc position, my dream has been to implement STRONGER with AGE into community-settings.

Leadership from were the first people in the UK I think I ever spoke to about the potential benefits of delivering a fully supervised, small group, strength training class for the prevention of low muscle strength and promotion of healthy ageing.

Yesterday, we completed an eight-week pilot of the programme. The first time ever, that I’ve let STRONGER with AGE into the wild. No more highly controlled academic settings, where we know strength training works, but does very little to impact behaviour and health at scale.

For this first cohort, we focused on women early in their menopause journey.

Using a word play on TATT, ‘Tired All The Time,’ a menopause symptom that was starting to define their lives, after a few weeks in, they decided to call themselves the TAT group, ‘Tired AND Thriving!!’

I think the quote on the wall behind us says it all with menopause sometimes!

I think this shows the power of small group strength training (delivered by someone who believes in their capabilities!!) for supporting relatedness, social connection, belonging, autonomy, competence, and exercise self-efficacy for increasing intrinsic motivation for healthier behaviours, growth, and wellbeing.

✨Grateful✨