People should really think about muscle loss as early as age 30 when serious muscle loss begins. You prevent it then by doing resistance training with weights, and eating adequate amounts of both protein and collagen. But most people are unaware that aerobic exercise isn’t enough to prevent muscle loss, so they don’t start the resistance training, if at all, until they are older and have already sustained serious sarcopenia. Don’t be that person.
Category: muscles
More Important
Weight training in old age may be more important than aerobic exercise in order to preserve muscle — unless you want to turn into a feeble oldie.
Strength and Old Age
Aerobic exercise is not enough to maintain your strength in old age. You need to use weight training/resistance training to break down the muscle so that it can rebuild with protein. That’s the process that maintains muscle and strength, and that’s what the majority of older people don’t do, and therefore suffer from severe sarcopenia.
You see this all the time in very old people, that they don’t have the strength to do simple things — like just standing up is a real effort for them. The other day, I saw an old woman who needed help getting out of the hot tub. She didn’t have the strength to step up to the next level. Clearly, this was person who never did any of the weight training for years, so her muscles atrophied.
Don’t let that happen. Do the weight training/resistance training on a regular basis — at least 3 times a week at the gym. Just do it. Your strength depends on it.
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