I have now been running (just about every day) for nearly 38 years. So when a headline, "Regular Exercise May Keep Your Body 30 Years Younger" caught my eye, I just had to read the article.
A study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology suggests that the muscles of older men and women who have exercised for decades are indistinguishable from those of healthy 25 year olds.
Those who have maintained their exercise routine over the decades also had a much higher aerobic capacity than most people of their age, making them biologically about 30 years younger than their chronological age. The study found.
Three distinct groups were recruited to the research programme, one a group of young people in their 20's, another consisting of older men and women who had been physically active for the past five decades and a third group of age-matched older people who had not exercised during adulthood.
At the outset, as you would expect, the researchers thought that the young people would possess the most robust muscles and aerobic capacities. Followed by the lifelong exercisers, who would be slightly weaker on both accounts and then the older non-exercisers who would be weaker still.
However, as described above, this was not the case.
So it looks as though I am well on the way to maintaining a 'young' body. Perhaps all I need going forward, then, is a face mask and some hair dye.
A study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology suggests that the muscles of older men and women who have exercised for decades are indistinguishable from those of healthy 25 year olds.
Three distinct groups were recruited to the research programme, one a group of young people in their 20's, another consisting of older men and women who had been physically active for the past five decades and a third group of age-matched older people who had not exercised during adulthood.
At the outset, as you would expect, the researchers thought that the young people would possess the most robust muscles and aerobic capacities. Followed by the lifelong exercisers, who would be slightly weaker on both accounts and then the older non-exercisers who would be weaker still.
However, as described above, this was not the case.
So it looks as though I am well on the way to maintaining a 'young' body. Perhaps all I need going forward, then, is a face mask and some hair dye.
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