Chaz stuck to the exercise program for the years that followed. Chaz now 78 years old was still an avid golfer but had few golfers his age to golf with. Bojack, five years younger, just played nine holes and the next day was too rundown to play again. Chaz insisted that Bojack try the same exercise program. Chaz said, “You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Anybody can stick to one half hour a week.”
A year later Bojack was playing 18 holes, and the next day, 18 holes again. He was hitting the ball farther and enjoying golf again. Bojack results were extraordinary, but it is not really almost a miracle because others have had similar results. The story is true, the identities were changed.
People aren’t put in nursing homes because they’re out of breath; it’s because they’re too weak. Loss of strength ultimately leads to life compromising conditions such as arthritis, type-2 diabetes, weight gain, herniated discs, osteoporosis,and heart disease. It’s best to be as strong as possible, but who wants to spend hours in the gym.
One scientific fact has been demonstrated in study after study: significant strength increases occur exercising as little as once a week IF it’s the right exercise program. A properly designed circuit strength training program starts with the premise of not seeing how much exercise one can withstand but with just how little one can get way with doing and still have significant results. There is no magic bullet; the exercise will be demanding, but such a program will be brief, efficient, produce significant strength increases, and be one that people will stick to for life – a life where one feels better, looks better, is free to enjoy life more without endless hours in the gym.
Of all the biomarkers of aging the most important is the loss of strength. Strength training is by far the most effective exercise in addressing the biomarkers that effect not only how young we look, but more importantly, how we young we feel. Increased strength addresses the following bio-markers:
1.Muscle mass decreases. As adults we lose about five pounds of lean muscle each decade. Proper strength training will help you keep it and even add to it.
2. Aerobic Capacity. Non-stop circuit training method has a very significant cardiovascular effect and increases both aerobic and anaerobic capacity.
3.Body cells become resistant to insulin. Added muscles will lower your blood sugar level and lessen the need for insulin.
4.Strength, energy and speed of the body decreases. Proper exercise will make you stronger, and day to day activities will be less strenuous and be less taxing energy-wise. Stronger muscles produce more force, more power, and more speed.
5.Base Metabolic Rate (metabolism) decreases. More muscle requires more calories.
6.Fat increases as a percentage of body weight. Extra muscle requires more fat burning calories.
7.Bone mineral density decreases. Strength training increases bone density.
8.Loss of flexibility. A proper strength training program will address strength as well as flexibility. More muscle contributes to flexibility. Muscles have the plasticity that tendons and ligaments do not.
9.Increased susceptibility to sickness and injury. A stronger body is less like to get injured and will have a stronger immune system.
While other forms of exercise might improve a certain biomarker more effectively. Running to improve aerobic capacity or yoga to improve flexibility none address so many as effectively weight training. No other form of exercise increases the most important biomarker, strength, as effectively as weight training, but what good is an exercise program if you are required to spend hours in the gym and you are not going to stick to it? Don’t spend hours in the gym; do just enough to cause a change then come back and do it again in a week. In a year you will be changed person. Mickey Mantel once said, “If I had known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself”. Is it worth spending 30 minutes three to four times a month to slow the aging process? For Bojack it is.
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