Resistance training helps us all live longer, says CUH physio

Colin Clarke, a physiotherapist at CUH, says exercise benefits people of all ages, and is really beneficial to people as we get older. He talks to Colette Sheridan

Colin Clarke, physiotherapist in CUH, who is part of a group, including Jim O'Byrne and Elton Chambers, currently training for the 2023 London Marathon, and who regularly run to raise funds for Cork University Hospital.

There’s a tendency to associate men’s fitness with young, big and strong guys who have classic body builders’ physiques, honed at intense sessions in the gym. As a result, men often neglect resistance training as they get older.

So says CUH physiotherapist, Colin Clarke. However, he emphasises a number of benefits to resistance training in the older population.