After age 50, you lose 1-2 percent of muscle strength per year. “After 60, you lose 3 percent a year, which comes out to about 4.5 pounds of muscle strength per year.
Strength training helps you regain the muscle you lost and helps your cells remain younger since exercise slows cell aging. Exercise doesn’t just make you feel younger. It may actually turn off the aging process in your chromosomes.”
Strength training can “ward off age-related muscle loss, improve mobility, decrease bone loss, and even help combat depression and cognitive decline.
Dr. Jasmine Marcus, PT, DPT, recommends that healthy older adults incorporate strength training into their exercise routine at least twice a week or more.The positive and regenerative properties of strength training cannot be overstated.
What we need is to get out of the seated environment and move more. Step, squat, lunge, walk, jog, hop, and skip. Do full-body movements that aren’t painful and are fun to perform.
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