How you fare will depend on the choices you have made for your health and fitness over the years and decades. No matter how far away retirement is you should have concern for what life might look like after you finish your working life. It is something you should be preparing for it rather than leaving it up to chance as if you are robbed of your health and mobility at this time, retirement will not be much fun at all.



Pay attention: Your body's decline has already begun. Once we get past our early twenties, our bodies start a degenerative process which is long and gradual. The body you once knew starts to behave differently than when you were 20 years old. Along with changing its shape, (for the worse), it doesn't respond as fast to physical exertion as it once did and if too much food is eaten it reacts by piling on body fat

Along with these physical changes one of the most important adverse effects of this degenerative process is the loss of muscle mass which decreases at the rate of approximately 500 grams per year after age thirty. Then this loss accelerates to a frightening pace after age sixty. That is unless you take steps to halt this process by protecting your strength and preserving your muscle mass. Until recently these changes were thought of as an uncontrollable effect of the aging process.

Through research we now know that this is not correct, it has been proven over and over again, these changes are an effect of inactivity, sedentary lifestyles or simply disuse.

Some people unwisely decrease their activity as they age, assuming it's proper to start "taking it easy" or "grow old gracefully". The price for this is they grow old ungracefully, with substantial limits on their mobility, self-reliance, and quality of life.

The body doesn't know how old it is, but it does know when insufficient activity and movement is taking place. The response to this is an accelerated aging process hastening loss of functional health and mobility and further pushing people into an unhealthy and even more inactive lifestyle. This vicious cycle continues with increased risk of life threatening diseases associated with a sedentary lifestyle such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease

So really it starts now, take heart, you can slow this process down and even reverse it. You can control the rate at which you age by taking the necessary steps to build and maintain muscle mass and prevent further muscle loss to slow the aging process. A higher level of strength and energy is largely in each of our hands with active strength training exercise which no other type of exercise is capable of.

Mere movement, or "any exercise is good enough", is not really sufficient if you truly wish to be prepared for your later years. Remember, muscles respond to strength training, whether they're 60-year-old muscles or 20-year-old muscles. This special type of exercise enables the muscles to get stronger by subjecting them to a higher work load than they would normally encounter in everyday life. This is the simple concept behind strength training.

Strength training is such a powerful age eraser it can improve the quality of your life at any age or any physical condition you may be in. There is absolutely no reason to get weak and feeble as we age. The generations before us did not know this so we are the lucky ones as we can take advantage of new information and research to make sure our older years are full of all the activities we enjoy the most.

Get started right away on the anti aging magic of strength training, get some professional help to get started to ensure you get the maximum benefits in a safe and effective manner.

A small investment of 2-3 sessions per week will maintain your strength, mobility and independence far beyond your expectations. There isn't another investment that could return you so much.