
The Remarkable Effects of Exercise on Ageing
The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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Are You Getting Older?
When people talk about strength work, fist is, endurance work, all that sort of things, they talk about more strength work to keep your muscles stronger. And principle here is a very basic one, we said that the power and strength stuff gets worse than the endurance stuff. We know that what's happening is that your muscle mass is declining by, again, about one to two % per year once you reach that forty forty five. Then your coordination is getting worse. So if i was to give you those three attributes, coordination, or neuro muscular control, muscle mass and then power and strength, the remedy to agent, is to focus on those three elements. Because if you can stop them
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