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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doesn't matter - their fitness level - people in their 70's are going to get tired. Or they are going to hide it. They may talk a big game re: all they do to stay fit. Older age with aches and pains comes for us all. Don't kid yourselves, thinking there is some secret sauce.

Ordinary people of all fitness levels age relatively the same, unless they are an outliner with a chronic condition.[/quote]

It matters. I start lifting weight after watching my Dad losing his mobility in the last few months of his life. He was walking till 92. More than half of the people in the private training sessions are over 60. The instructor said there is a 90 year old lady which I am dying to meet.
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Lifting weights is extremely important after age 50. You lose about 1% of your muscles a year, increase the % of fat in your body, and start losing balance when you get much older (70s, 80s, 90s). That's why older people fall and break their hip and end up on a walker or in a wheelchair.

I lift weights 2-3 days a week. I HATE it, but I do it because I want to be active until I'm 100!!![/quote]

+1 to strength training being the fountain of youth. Besides making it less likely that you will fall (and if you do fall your bones will be stronger and less like break), muscle is just more metabolically healthy. It controls glucose which in turn helps fight just about every disease. [/quote]

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