I wish the title to this article were hyperbole. But we now actually know of a mechanism within the brain whereby heavy squats and deadlifts fend off neural degeneration. This is not an overstatement. Feeling dumber as you age? Try intense exercise.
When we stop doing intense lower body movement (i.e. - sprinting, jumping, bounding, heavy weight training), we have a reduction in brain function and neuron growth. The resultant degeneration in turn reduces our motor skill, further reinforcing lack of intense lower body movement, which of course amplifies the neural degeneration. And so on. It's a terrible catch-22 for which there's a pretty straightforward remedy: lift heavy, even when it hurts, sucks, doesn't seem to be making you skinny, or seems futile. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/…/fnins.2018.00336/full
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https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/blue-light-has-a-dark-side Think about the amount of time, energy, and effort someone has put into his or her unhealthy behaviors and lifestyle. It's generally a lifetime, hundreds of thousands or even millions or tens of millions of dollars, and the entirety of his or her being. Objectively and relatively, that is A LOT of investing. Thus, people proffer nonsense equivocations about changing their lives: "I can't afford the time or the money for this gym membership, healthy food, workout, coaching, etc." That isn't really what's going on, because it is a pittance in comparison to the years or decades spent on becoming and persisting in unhealthiness. The fractional costs involved in becoming more fit or healthy are non-comparable to the immense expenses involved in getting and staying unhealthy. We all know it. What's really going on is that people have to substantiate their terrible lifestyle decisions (even while they knowingly are in the wrong) to feebly keep the ego somewhat in tact (so as to not have a complete nervous breakdown) by persisting in their bad choices and prior familiar unhealthy investments.
Sunk Cost Fallacy plays a strong role when people resist beneficial lifestyle change, new scientific discoveries, and just general life management. Apparently, it's built way down into the mammal brain. It's being studied all the time: https://www.med.umn.edu/news-events/sticking-wrong-choice 18 MINUTE PLANK
Crohn's >>> fit Housebound >>> outdoorsy Fearful >>> fearless I work with clients whose challenges are sometimes so great that they make most onlookers feel inspired or ashamed: "If that person can do it, so can I." "If that person can do it, what's wrong with me?" There's no way to capture well the journey someone like this has travelled. At one point, she was lying face up in a hospital bed, awaiting the inevitable end. Her colon had burst, and she should've died. The distrust of her body which she gained from that inexperience is something IG can't capture. But here she is now, rocking out an 18 MINUTE PLANK! There is absolutely nothing in her backstory which would let you predict her current abilities. The depths she's faced couldn't foretell the heights she's reached, whether with this or how she's become an Olympic Team Leader, and a sports ambassador/diplomat. The difficulties people face do not prevent a heroic finale. #insta #instagram #instafit #crohns #celiac #chronic #autoimmune #disease #guthealth #elev8wellness #fitness #health #wellness #overcome #coaching #mindset #hope #belief #septic #thrive #medicine #drug #neardeath #therapy #recovery #olympics #Olympic #plank #record The Myokine - scientifically unknown until 2008
Resistance training remodels the immune system and cardiac architecture. The anti-inflammatory/health benefit of developing strength and skeletal muscle is only beginning to be unraveled. I've long-suspected that there is more to muscle and strength training than "burning calories." But the simpleton calories-in/calories-out descriptions are still proffered as explanations. If calories explain all, how do I have 50 more pounds of muscle and 15 fewer pounds of bodyfat than I did when I was 17? Did I eat more than I burned to gain the muscle, or less than I burned to lose the fat? Furthermore, why do I have less hip/IT-band/shin pain now at a heavier body weight than when I was 17 years old? I've consistently loaded all structures with more resistance in the past 5 years than when I was in persistent orthopedic pain. The myokine explains it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myokine I have long warned about getting fixated on “weight.” Generally, though body “weight” tends to go up as people age, their lean tissue (bone, muscle, tendons, ligaments, connective fascia, brain matter, etc.) goes down. It atrophies. And one day, when it’s atrophied enough, we finally notice it and call it sarcopenia, osteoporosis, “bad knees,” “bad shoulders,” “bad back,” “dementia,” “Alzheimer’s,” etc. Those conditions were brewing a long time ago. But we refused to acknowledge them until they crossed a threshold of extreme dysfunction; and then we throw our hands up in exasperation: “this was NEVER a problem before; I guess it’s just part of getting older.” Nope. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Even modest consistent training reverses that trend, according to this study: https://www.the-scientist.com/…/how-muscles-age--and-how-ex… |
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