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10-26-18, 01:09 PM | ||
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Yet, none of the above-mentioned things will help me get out of a chair at 90 as much as strength training (including yoga). One needs to keep the quads and abs strong. Or else, one will be really healthy and stuck on the couch.
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10-26-18, 01:26 PM | |
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10-26-18, 01:26 PM | ||
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Science and medicine aren't static. Otherwise, no one would still be doing research that has the potential to improve the quality of our lives. Exercise science has been around for nearly 50 years, at least in peer-reviewed publications. That list of 78 science-backed benefits of weightlifting is a stellar example of the fruits of those years of research.
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10-26-18, 02:05 PM | ||
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You also won't be able to get out of your chair if your health fails and you have some awful degenerative disease, or you're in an accident. Strength training is important. Everything else is, too. Some in our circle of influence, some outside of it. ETA--you probably won't be really healthy if you're "stuck on the couch"!
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10-26-18, 02:06 PM | |
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10-26-18, 07:38 PM | ||
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I do think that such articles should be careful to avoid the appearance of promoting Doing Only One Thing and eliminating everything else. In this article, I would've liked an explicit note (at least around the introduction, the conclusion, or the tips) that the author in no way discourages other activities, if only because some readers may assume wrongly.
But does anyone "here"--the article author, the researchers cited, anyone in this thread--advocate doing only weights? It'll be some time before I can review everything in the article more closely, but I haven't seen any evidence yet that someone here does. Quote:
But as I wrote earlier, those three words all appear in the article as part of the benefits, as well as terms like "functional capabilities" and "functional independence." If the purported benefits of weight training were limited to strength in isolation, this would've been a rather short article.
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Here's a good place to mention this other piece, which I haven't viewed in a few years.
Strength Training Elderly Nursing Home Patients There is a measure, the FIM score ("Functional Independence Measurement"): Quote:
Resident Esther Duvall, after using both therapy and strength training, moved from the nursing home to the independent living campus to live with her husband. Resident Peg Terbeek, described as "active and energetic" already, reported significant improvements in her energy, posture, and back pain. "In fact, she insisted that she now feels just like she did in her 20s in terms of muscle strength and physical function." And what did the director of nursing notice? Quote:
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11-04-18, 10:47 AM | ||
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While not quite searching for something to add to this thread, I found two more articles, both from 2018, through a general search for a related subject. If they didn't work so well as additions to this thread, I'd start a new one for them.
This post concerns the first, a usnews.com article from March. It resembles an abridged version of the original article of this thread. 11 Benefits of Strength Training That Have Nothing to Do With Muscle Size It, too, mentions balance, flexibility, and mobility. It also mentions a lot of things, such as brain health, mentioned in "78 benefits." I haven't compared the two yet to see how much they use the same studies, but "11 benefits" is faster to read. This article also explicitly mentions a problem that should be mentioned more: Quote:
But as I said earlier in this thread, I'm also appalled to see just how harm has been done and how much good has been left undone through popular attitudes towards exercise (attitudes, mind you, that could be and already were being identified as problematic years ago, even without the recent research). At least when I first loaded this page, it linked to a second piece, which I'll discuss in another post: Muscle’s Many Powers Scientists are learning that resistance training confers much more than strength. It’s key to your overall health.
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