| Humans were meant to move and are capable of | | | | activity creates, muscles grow weak and become |
| extremely heavy workloads right up until a very | | | | smaller. The rate of muscle mass loss is 500 |
| old age. This is being proven by people of over | | | | grams per year starting at age 30 years. By age |
| 100 years old running marathons and cases of | | | | 65 if you have not worked at keeping your |
| other incredible displays of strength being | | | | strength you could have lost as much as 80% of |
| recorded. So becoming older does not necessarily | | | | it. After age 75 years as many as 66% of people |
| mean becoming weaker. | | | | cannot lift 5 kilos above their head. |
| Our modern day lifestyles have an almost | | | | Along with the lost muscle mass the bones that |
| complete lack of any meaningful activity but our | | | | the muscles are attached to also grow soft, |
| bodies need this movement to stay healthy and | | | | weak and brittle. With so much muscle being lost, |
| strong and will last much longer with plenty of | | | | balance is affected and serious falls are likely with |
| vigorous exercise. As we get older 'exercise | | | | hip fractures and other injuries being common. |
| deficiency syndrome' is the biggest risk we face. | | | | The heart grows weak and scrawny form disuse. |
| The body does not actually know how old it is but | | | | With vigorous activity being abandoned years if |
| it does know if we are not moving enough. When | | | | not decades ago. there is no chance it will be |
| you exercise vigorously, your muscles release | | | | needed for anything strenuous anymore. |
| specific hormones that travel throughout your | | | | But hey, all this is normal, after all we are getting |
| bloodstream, telling every cell in the body to grow | | | | old and we have been taught we must grow old |
| and stay strong. If activity levels slow inactive | | | | "gracefully" or "take it easy" which really all means |
| muscles produce chemicals that instruct cells to | | | | the same thing "idly". We see others slowing down |
| decay. When this continues for years or even | | | | as they age and so believe that this is normal to |
| decades the human body will deteriorate and | | | | become slow, weak and decrepit. We start to act |
| waste away into a frail, weak shell. | | | | old, think old, be old and then deteriorate, decay |
| Our life cycle is such that if one is not being | | | | and fall apart. |
| productive (ie not moving) we are cleared away | | | | But, it doesn't have to be this way. We now |
| off the planet to make room for someone else | | | | know that is not aging that causes this decay; but |
| that is productive to take our place. There is | | | | the lack of activity in our lives that is the cause. |
| absolutely no point in having lots of unproductive | | | | The good news is no matter what age you are it |
| people around that cannot contribute to the good | | | | is never too late to stop and even reverse this |
| of the majority. In fact they take away from the | | | | process. You can take immediate steps to |
| good of the majority as they need help to | | | | protect yourself against the many degenerative |
| survive. Just take a look in any nursing home to | | | | diseases that were once thought of as a natural |
| see the results of deterioration and decay. Many | | | | part of aging but are now know as simple disuse. |
| of these people are still mentally strong and alert | | | | The simple solution is to begin an exercise |
| but are frail and lack the ability to take care of | | | | program that incorporates at least 60% strength |
| themselves. No doubt the loss of 3 - 5 kilos of | | | | training exercise prescribed by a Fitness |
| muscle tissue per decade from lack of activity | | | | Professional. |
| contributes to this frailty. | | | | With proper exercise, you can maintain your |
| As our sole function is the survival of our species, | | | | strength and vitality throughout your entire life. |
| we are made so we can work very hard for | | | | You can transform your body from the inside |
| several decades while we have to produce food | | | | out, restoring health, improving function, and |
| to feed our family. | | | | preventing disease. |
| If activity levels are slowing down the body thinks | | | | You are lucky in that so much knowledge is |
| that there is no longer a family to feed therefore | | | | available to make sure you never have to suffer |
| there is no need to keep things functioning if they | | | | the indignity of your health and mobility being |
| are not needed. | | | | eroded away. Take it upon yourself to stay |
| Without the necessary hormones that vigorous | | | | strong and fit to protect your future. |