>Actually, if you put them all on an effective weightlifting and diet program, they'd still decline The point is the baseline will increase. Someone who streng

>Actually, if you put them all on an effective weightlifting and diet program, they'd still decline The point is the baseline will increase. Someone who strength trains seriously could easily be at least twice as strong at age 40 as somebody without any training. Even if they unavoidably lose 50% of their strength over the next 20 years, that just means at age 60 they'll have the same strength level as a 40 year old who never strength trained (and twice the strength of a 60 year old who never trained, assuming it decays linearly).