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Don’t forget some type of strength training. There’s plenty of research that it reduces all cause mortality. Likely by pushing back the time you become frail.
by jgilias 1y ago
Don’t forget some type of strength training. There’s plenty of research that it reduces all cause mortality. Likely by pushing back the time you become frail.
- mark_l_watson 1y agoI should, but I don't. I do hike four hours a week and swim for a half hour every day very early in the morning. Thanks for the reminder, you are 100% correct. I am in my mid 70s, so I think I only need resistance training about twice a week.
- lagniappe 1y agoYou need it every day at that age to preserve bone density.
- bravesoul2 1y agoCitation?
- dakiol 1y agoNeed what exactly? Resistance training or strength training? Or both?
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- apwell23 1y agoactually you need it 3 times a day
- giardini 1y agoHere's an exercise anyone can do almost everyday that will increase bone density. I do it in the shower or wherever there's a solid safe tile floor: Start with both knees and hips bent (like a football linebacker just before the snap), legs apart and arms bent at the side to maintain balance. Set one foot slightly ahead of the other. Now, using primarily the heels of your feet, jump up slightly(preferably only a few inches) and slam both heels back down, while switching which foot is forward. [Don't jump so much that you straighten your legs; instead keep knees bent at all times]. You're hopping in place and striking your heels on the ground, with the right foot forward first and then with the left foot forward, back and forth. Make sure the heel hits the tile and bears the brunt of the force (rather than the toes). Do 20 of these hops each time you're in the shower. Slamming the heel of the foot into the floor vibrates the large bones of the legs. These vibrations will strengthen (all of) your bone over time.
- fivestones 1y agoIs there a name for this particular exercise?
- giardini 1y agoWell, I call it the "longer balls" exercise b/c, each time your heels hit the floor, unless you grab your nut sack, you will feel the impact!8-)) So, to correct the instructions: ...stand legs apart and arms bent at the side to maintain balance, nutsack in one hand if male, ..
- Spooky23 1y agoAbsolutely. I saw this with aging loved ones. The most “durable” ones fared better as they aged and had health issues. As you age, each acute medical event has a real impact and recovery is slow and limited. You have to be at an high baseline to crawl back up. My dad had a stroke that really affected him badly, but he recovered a lot and worked hard. It was all set back by a cold and a uti that resulted in a hospitalization. That basically did him in. Everything you can do to make sure that you can stand up and get around as long as possible means that you’ll be able to live a longer fulfilling life.
- fny 1y agoMy grandfather was hit by a car at 80 and only recovered because he has the constitution of a tank. Even afterwards he fights daily to do everything himself.
- snapplebobapple 1y agoThis might get turned on its head in a couple years. Some new research just came out on combining incretin based therapies (ie semaglutide) with myostatin blockers (in this case trevogrumab and garetosmab) and the monkey lost a crap load of fat while also putting on muscle mass. It's a hell of a time to be a monkey, hopefully it translates into a hell of a time to be a human in a few years. Also, I would like some samples of whatever substance the guys naming these drugs are consuming. Whatever it is, they are wasting it on naming drugs when they should be using it to write science fiction.
- WithinReason 1y agoObviously the inventors were called Trevor and Garett
- simonebrunozzi 1y agoLink to the research?