Stopping Point

TGM said:

If you have the time I know a lot of us 20-somethings would appreciate your thoughts on what we should do to ensure we can still be active when we're 50.

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Silverback said:

I can only speak for myself and most will not like the answer but I feel my longevity is attributed to not performing one rep lifts-that and Olympic lifts.

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“Losing muscle strength starts a bit later, at around 45 or 50 when we lose around 1.5 per cent of strength each year until 65 or 70 when the loss speeds to about 3 per cent each year,” he says.

As for how rapidly we lose the amount of muscle in our body – by the time we get to 60 plus, we can have lost as much as 40 per cent.

That’s assuming you’re doing nothing to fight back.

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In a perfect world where we’d be doing everything possible to resist frailty – and the nursing home - we’d all be picking up weights in our mid-40s, women included, and using them into old age.

“We need more affordable and accessible exercise programs for middle aged and older adults, that specifically focus on improving muscle function – but we also need to learn to train our muscles in a specific way to get the most benefit,” stresses Daly.

That means not relying just on standard gym machines where exercises are often done sitting down, but by using weights or doing exercises with movements that mimic those we do in real life such as squats or step ups, he says.

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