No time for rocking chairs.If you're 65 or older, it might be time to hit the free weights. A study published in an issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) is a weekly epidemiological digest for the United States published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 5 June 1981 issue of the MMWR published the cases of five men in what turned out to be the first report of AIDS. finds that older people would do well to take up lifting weights. In the study, 11 percent of 6,000 respondents 65 and older said they participated in strength training such as weight lifting weight lifting, international sport, also a training technique for athletes in other sports. From the earliest times men have lifted weights as a test of strength. or calisthenics calisthenics: see aerobics. calisthenics Systematic rhythmic bodily exercises (e.g., jumping jacks, push-ups), usually performed without apparatus. two or more days per week. Women, those classified as obese, and respondents labeling themselves as "in poor health" were the least likely to strength train regularly. Strength training helped prevent such problems as bone loss and muscle atrophy Muscle atrophy refers to a decrease in the size of skeletal muscle, which occurs in a variety of settings. Atrophy may or may not be distinct from "sarcopenia", which is the loss of muscle seen in the aged. . It also minimized falls and bone fractures. (The Nation's Health) |
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