In this last week of class we have been learning about muscles, bones and cartilage and what happens to these areas as they age. One of the many interesting articles that I found was on muscles and was called More Than an Exercise in Vanity. This article was interesting because it talked about a man who had been lifting wights and working out since he was the age of 12 and now at the age of 60 and a Doctor of Cardiology and a marathon runner he was now a small man with not a muscle bulging on him. The article discusses how researchers talk about how the healthy muscles are the muscles that have been worked to the fullest extent and so they have enough strength to get through life especially as one ages and continues to get older. The article also discussed how muscles of the elderly population who don't use their muscles will atrophy and they will be unable to lift themselves up and brace themselves which leads to many of the falls that the elderly encounter. This article also discussed how the elderly population especially could gain muscles, by lifting weights and doing resistance training, as some of the ways of working out muscles.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/health/13muscles.html?_r=1
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