subject: Your Quality Of Life Is Dependant On Your Level Of Strength [print this page] If only we could control the fact that we all will age and get more candles on our birthday cake but unfortunately we can not. But we can control how we age and that is really important to our quality of life especially in the second half of our life span.
The most useful tool we can have as an adult is our physical strength. This means every single thing we do in everyday life - our daily tasks and activities are easier and less tiring. We will have more energy with more strength so we can pack more into our life.
But the problem is no matter whether you are 30 years old or 70 years old if you are not doing enough muscle building and maintaining activity you will be losing your precious muscle tissue. As we get older we unwisely decrease physical activity and because of this we lose around one half pound of muscle tissue each year. If you do nothing to stop it the rate of this loss doubles after age 50 dragging health into a downward spiral that can greatly reduce the quality of your life.
Up until recently the importance of muscular strength has been underestimated yet the majority of the problems faced by older people come from not having enough of it. People fall and get injured when they do not have enough strength, they get disabled and put into wheel chairs because they have lost their strength and they get put into nursing homes when they can no longer perform the daily necessities of living.
This is because their physical strength has been siphoned away after 20, 30 or more years of inactivity and not doing anything to keep their strength. You have to use it and use it often and in a challenging way to keep it. The human body only keeps what is being used which is efficiency at its best and a basic law of nature yet somehow we seem to think that it suddenly no longer applies to us.
Physical strength has to be looked after with self care. This self care is a proper exercise program that contains mostly strength training exercise at least twice per week. Combine and support your activity with quality nutrition which means ditching the refined and processed junk and eating natural whole foods cooked from scratch.
Yes, looking after your strength, fitness and healthy eating is like a new job. It does take time and effort but is well worth every second you spend. After all if you don't who else is going to do it?
You will be rewarded with new found vitality and 'zest for living'. You will be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Once you experience added strength you will never want to go back to the sluggish feeling of your life force being slowly sucked from you.
Get some help from a fitness professional so you get the best start possible as you do not have the time to waste doing things that will not get you great results right from the word go. In just a few months you will be able to reclaim years (even decades) of aging and disuse. A pretty good deal wouldn't you agree?
