Muscle Strength

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Muscle Strength

As you age, your muscles lose strength. If you are active, if you exercise and participate in sports, that loss will be minimized. But if you insist on being a couch potato, watch out! Those precious muscles will get noticeably flabbier and weaker. And you’re going to have a tough time getting to the refrigerator. But you probably figured this slice of reality out already.

Muscle strength is defined as the maximum force (tension) generated by a muscle in a single maximal (read “all-out”) contraction. Just as there is a loss of muscle strength, there is also a decrease in muscle mass with aging, commensurate with a decline in the size and number of your muscle fibers. Such an inevitable decline, however, is smaller among active older adults. Naturally, this decline is a function of the type of activity you choose and how the muscles are used. Evidence suggests that vigorous activity, such as weight lifting, running or swimming intervals, pace workouts, and racing, can actually reverse this muscle loss (maybe, so much for a very mellow jog three times a week). In fact, older men (and women too) can actually increase their maximum strength by exactly the same percentage as younger subjects, but only after just eight weeks of progressive strength training. In short, exercise can have as beneficialand as immediatean effect on an older body as on a younger one. Hey, guys, that means you. anti-aging pods