Are you coming up the hill or are you at the top looking down? This article linked here, is an excellent wake up call to what happens as you age and what you can do about it.

Special Report: Fight Age With Muscle

The latest research is changing how doctors look at muscle mass. No longer seen simply in terms of performance or vanity, muscle mass serves as the body’s armor against several age-related diseases as well as heart problems, diabetes, and even cancer.

By John Brandt, Best Life

Here is a sneak peek:

“Sarcopenia creeps by in imperceptible increments, stealing a fifth of a pound of muscle a year, from ages 25 to 50, and then it picks up a dreadful, yet still mostly silent, velocity. The condition subsequently bleeds a man of up to a pound of muscle a year, a loss he is unlikely to notice until it’s too late. “You haven’t gotten any thinner, because the pounds of muscle are typically replaced by pounds of fat,” explains Maddalozzo. “But sarcopenia is progressing all the time. One day you trip and fall and suffer a fracture of your hip. Then, when you try to rehab after hip-replacement surgery, you discover that you have virtually no muscle mass to build on.”

I often wish I would have done the things I do now when I was more youthful, but those days have come and gone. I am glad that it is not too late to have a “say” in the matter!

Related posts:

  1. Building Muscle With MotrinI have discovered I've been taking a legal muscle enhancer for a while and never even knew that was one of it's functions!...
  2. How To Quickly Add 15 lbs of Muscle Mass…Guaranteed!In an untrained lifter, deadlifts are a guaranteed 15 pounds of muscle mass....
  3. Fight Gone BadAlmost did not make it over to the House of Pain today, but I rallied and showed up just in time to do one of the famous benchmark WODs called Fight Gone Bad. Here is a description from the Crossfit HQ page of fun that followed: Three rounds of: Wall-ball,...
  4. Val Does “Fight Gone Bad”Val decided to lead off with the event she liked least. You see here below on the Concept 2 rower. She said detested rowing, but after this FGB, she said the Sumo Deadlift High Pull (SDHP) became her new least favorite....
  5. Mayweather vs. Hatton FightMayweather vs. Hatton - Watch more free videos If you are are a fight fan, this Saturday promises a great welterweight match-up with two undefeated fighters, Floyd Mayweather. and Ricky Hatton. For pre-fight analysis by Compu-Box and Bert Sugar and fight hype go to HBO: Boxing and the Metro in...
  6. What Muscle Does That Work? ...
  7. The Best Performance Drink Ever ...

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.