Today we rest!
Yesterday someone asked, "Why are you so interested in fitness?" I said so I can walk up stairs and play with my grandchildren in the future.
Here's the dealio...inactive adults, over age 30, lose roughly 3 - 5% of muscle tissue every 10 years! So when the inactive of us are 50, they have lost up to 10% of their muscle tissue. What do you think replaces that muscle tissue?
The ONLY way to slow that loss is to build muscle. One can be very aerobically fit, but still lack the strength to do thing, as they age, that they take for granted today.
So what is one to do? Lift something, anything! Strength training prevents the reduction in muscle tissue that causes the body metabolism to slow and makes the bones more vulnerable to conditions like osteoporosis.
Having fit lungs is wonderful, but if you can not pick up the 40 lbs back of water softener salt, dog food, pick up your grandchildren or walk up a flight of stairs when you are 65, who care that you use to be able to walk for an hour a day!
Hey Marilyn Monroe lifted weights, so you should to...
The inserted photo is one of many that Philippe Halsman shot of Marilyn Monroe. In 1958 Halsman was listed in Popular Photography's "World's Ten Greatest Photographers", and in 1975 he received the Life Achievement in Photography Award from the American Society of magazine Photographers.
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