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Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age

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Re: Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age

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Post by takno »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #37
zeroxfe wrote: post #4

"Of course, this type of single-snapshot-in-time study can’t tell us whether the athletes’ training actually changed their muscle health over the years or if the athletes were somehow blessed from birth with better muscles, allowing them to become superb masters athletes." I really wish they hadn't used world class athletes, who almost always have major genetic advantages.

yes, and maybe if they hadn't used world class athletes they could have had more than 29 of them. I mean if they had 10000 exceptionally fit people for their age, that might start to mean something.

Given that they had to get them into a lab and use specialised equipment on them I'd guess the low number of participants was more due to budget than experiment design

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Post by neffy »

vlasev wrote: post #35
rosser wrote: post #27

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I'm 43. My father had had his third heart attack by the time he was my age. Shitty diet, smoking during more of his life than not, negligible exercise (despite being an adrenalin junkie), and high-stress work (during my life, he was everything from a paramedic, to an underwater welder, to a corrections officer at a state penitentiary) were doubtless contributing factors. I'm sure genetics played a substantial part, t…

Sounds a bit like some shitty genetic defect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Fixx

Re: Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age

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Post by hyperchase »

krrrh wrote: post #39
dominotw wrote: post #9

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I am curious if you had to deal with any injuries over the years. My body seems to be the type that gets injured easily, no matter what I do I seem to get injured. I am obsessive about form, I seem to get "overuse injuries", shoulder impingement, sensitive it band ect.

Can't speak for GP, but I kept hitting a wall in strength gains with shoulder or lower back pain until I made mobility work a priority. It doesn't have to be fancy or extreme, frequency is the key. Search out Joe DeFranco's Limber 11 and Simple 6 for a decent routine and try to get 3-4 times a week minimum. After a month you'll be surprised how different your body feels.

Took the words right out of my mouth. Mobility work is key, seems pointless when you first start but will save you down the road.

Re: Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age

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Post by bootload »

mindcrime wrote: post #13

I sure hope so! I'm 42 now, and I just came back in from a bike ride - only my second since a 5 month layoff caused by a combination of weather, travel and shoulder surgery - and I'm beat. And gawd was I slllooooowwwww out there tonight. Uuuggghhh. But hey, I know it will come back with time, and - more to the point - I know how important it is to stay active. After the whole heart-attack thing back in 2014, I'm pret…

"I sure hope so! I'm 42 now, and I just came back in from a bike ride - only my second since a 5 month layoff caused by a combination of weather, travel and shoulder surgery - and I'm beat."

Interesting bit about individual response to exercise. Michael Mosley, MD, has an episode, "The Truth About Exercise" BBC2 [0],[1],[2] that is worth watching. During the show his genetic profile indicates he gets an approximate 3-5% improvement in V02 Max, no matter how much exercise he does.

Get out on the bike and enjoy living.

[0] https://vimeo.com/51836895

[1] http://www.sciencefocus.com/feature/genetics/high-street-gen...

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/health-17177251

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Post by jawilson2 »

hyperchase wrote: post #19
mindcrime wrote: post #15

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This is making me really want to start powerlifting again. I got up to a 420 deadlift (sumo style), and 320x4 back squat, before I wound up drifting away from it. I think once my shoulder finishes healing (rotator cuff surgery), I'm going to start lifting seriously again.

Go for it. The Iron Temple is the one constant, it's always waiting for you...beckoning. Will you heed the call of Brodin?

“The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.” --Henry Rollins

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Post by agumonkey »

mindcrime wrote: post #13

I sure hope so! I'm 42 now, and I just came back in from a bike ride - only my second since a 5 month layoff caused by a combination of weather, travel and shoulder surgery - and I'm beat. And gawd was I slllooooowwwww out there tonight. Uuuggghhh. But hey, I know it will come back with time, and - more to the point - I know how important it is to stay active. After the whole heart-attack thing back in 2014, I'm pret…

Cardiovascular failure taught me a lot by pushing my system to its lower limit. When walking 45 minutes is the only physical activity you can take, the only way you can feel warm blood smoothly pushing and the only time you'll feel your heart pulsing sound and clear you learn a lot.

Re: Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age

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Post by agumonkey »

qrendel wrote: post #38
jjrp wrote: post #22

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Holy cow, heart attack at 40? Can you elaborate on how that happened?

If you think that's bad, I know of two different people offline, one who had a stroke at 27 and the other a heart attack at 34. Don't know either well enough to comment on their lifestyle or contributing factors, though.

There are many pathways influencing your heart and arteries. Very high stress can trigger-overflow your system with hormones that constrict blood flow to the point of harming itself even if you're quite healthy.

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Post by altotrees »

People often ask me if I worry about tearing muscles/sore joints when I run, ride my bike or lift weights. In college, I kind of worried about those things, but now sitting in a chair from 8-10 hours a day makes me worry way more about heart health/blood pressure, etc.

I just kind of hope to offset all of that sedentary time in front of the monitor, and indeed do hope that all this activity benefits me down the line, be it muscle elasticity, heart health, lung function, whatever.

Re: Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

takno wrote: post #41
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yes, and maybe if they hadn't used world class athletes they could have had more than 29 of them. I mean if they had 10000 exceptionally fit people for their age, that might start to mean something.

Given that they had to get them into a lab and use specialised equipment on them I'd guess the low number of participants was more due to budget than experiment design

probably, but the result is the same.

Re: Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better with Age

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Post by justinhj »

altotrees wrote: post #48

People often ask me if I worry about tearing muscles/sore joints when I run, ride my bike or lift weights. In college, I kind of worried about those things, but now sitting in a chair from 8-10 hours a day makes me worry way more about heart health/blood pressure, etc. I just kind of hope to offset all of that sedentary time in front of the monitor, and indeed do hope that all this activity benefits me down the line,…

Try a standing desk if you can. I find that aside from tired feet I feel a lot more energetic throughout the day and no longer get and aches in my back that I used to experience when sitting
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