Why Weight Training? : Reason # 6

Weight training helps reverse the aging process

As you get older and become more concerned about looking and feeling youthful, you have a couple of choices. You could go to an anti-aging clinic, get expensive prescriptions for drugs and hormones, slog down all kinds of goop, swallow fifty different supplement pills a day, and hope that one of these things will be the fountain of youth. Or, you could change your attitudes and beliefs by following excellent nutrition and lift weights.

People who don't maintain their lean body mass through strength training will lose up to 40 percent of their muscles by age 65! This progressive muscle loss with age is so insidious that it has been given a scientific name: SARCOPENIA. Although many people accept this deterioration as unavoidable, most sedentary people experience accelerated pathological aging, not normal aging. When it comes to muscles, "use it or lose it" is literally true. When you truly understand this, you realize that weight training is as close to the fountain of youth as you will ever get!