Did you know that muscle wastage in your later years can not only be stopped but can actually be reversed? The fancy word for muscle wastage is sarcopenia and did you know it can fought by using targeted resistance exercises you could secure your mobility in your senior years? Fighting sarcopenia is not easy and…
There are so many common exercise myths around. Will Harlow assesses some of them. I agree with just about everything he says. I do, however, think he is being rather binary when he compares cardiovascular and resistance based exercises. One needs both. If you only stick to resistance exercises, you will gain muscle mass but…
Exercise and Reversing the Aging Process. A View from Mark Hyman Dr. Mark Hyman explains how an exercise regimen is essential as we age Allow us to introduce WILL HARLOW, a British physiotherapist who specialises in exercise regimens for over fifties. Here he is demonstrating the Farmers Carry exercise. This is a solid multi muscle…
Derived from the Latin words ‘sarco’and ‘penia’, the term sarcopenia broadly means ‘poverty of flesh’. Generally, it relates to low muscle mass accompanied by low muscle strength or low physical performance. Informally, sarcopenia is a synonym for muscle wastage which often accompanies increasing age particularly after 50. However, it is also the result of lack…
