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Health & Wellness
It’s Never Too Late
You Can Start Exercising for Life at Any Age
NBy Drew McConaha
o matter your age, it’s never too late to start a new fitness routine. Whether you’ve exercised all your life or you’re just getting started, strength training is one of the best ways to continue to live your best life both physically and mentally.
Building strength in the gym helps you maintain the lifestyle you want outside of it. Strength training can enhance your quality of life through an increase in muscle mass, stronger bones and joints, flexibility, a healthy weight, and balance.
Why You Should Train for Life
Our facility, Train for Life, was founded on this exact principle. The ability to move well and be strong are vital to living a healthy and happy life, and everyone, regardless of age, gender, or ethnicity, should make exercise a priority. The time you spend in the gym can greatly impact your physical, mental, and emotional well-being
As we age, our need for exercise and strength training greatly increases in order to continue to stay active and be independent. Many of us take for granted our ability to do simple things like playing with our children and grandchildren, navigating a flight of stairs, or even getting up from a chair, until we reach the point where we are no longer able to do them.
“Remarkably, physical activity and exercise are well-established countermeasures against muscle aging and have been shown to attenuate age-related decreases in muscle mass, strength, and regenerative capacity, and slow or prevent impairments in muscle
metabolism,” according to an article in Cold Spring Harbor
Perspectives in Medicine. “We posit that exercise and physical
Fitness
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