Well, we all know that strength training is a necessary part of a well-rounded workout, but did you think that it actually could help prevent and reverse muscle aging? Muscle aging means that we lose muscle tone, and often times this can lead to more problems, such as the heart weakening, which is a major muscle and of course major organ. Here’s where it gets really interesting.

Muscle/strength training, as we all know, is an excellent way to condition the muscles and increase endurance, but now new research is suggesting that muscle sculptin not only conditions older muscle, but it also essentially turns the genetic age clock back on the muscles and makes them as efficient as they were in younger years.

And…here’s where it gets really interesting. This turning back of the clock on muscle aging was found because when the muscle tissue was biopsied on these people who started to increase their muscle workouts, something called their “gene expression profile” which is typically much different in younger muscle tissue versus older muscle tissue, was found to actually reverse itself after older subjects started strength training regularly.

My gosh, you know, with all the mounting and continuing evidence that exercise and strength training, as well as cardiovascular training, helps us out in so many ways, how can anyone in their right mind rationalize being a couch potato!?

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