Fitness Training After 40: A Guide for Adults
- Walk every day It is certainly an excellent habit, but the 40 -year threshold is overcome, it is no longer enough to preserve general health and contrast the...
- The expert speaks, specifically, of the progressive loss of muscle masswhich begins around forty years with an estimated annual reduction of 1%.
- This physiological decline weakens the physical strengthexposing the body to cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, disabling falls and early mortality, in some cases.
After 40 years of age, walking is not enough: here is the training recommended by the cardiologist who must be implemented to stay healthy and fit.
Walk every day It is certainly an excellent habit, but the 40 -year threshold is overcome, it is no longer enough to preserve general health and contrast the effects of the time advanced. This is what the cardiologist and the health dissemination is firmly supports Magdalena Perellówhich underlines that, starting from this age, a paradigm change must be implemented as regards the way in which the conceived is conceivedphysical activity in adulthood.
Training after 40 years: just walking is not enough
The expert speaks, specifically, of the progressive loss of muscle masswhich begins around forty years with an estimated annual reduction of 1%.
This physiological decline weakens the physical strengthexposing the body to cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, disabling falls and early mortality, in some cases.
According to the doctor Perellóthe muscles are endocrine organs, capable of releasing anti -inflammatory action molecules, protective for the heart and neurostimulating.
A thesis also supported by a recent meta-analysis published on British Journal of Sports Medicine in which it has shown that dedicating 30 to 60 minutes per week to muscle strengthening activities significantly reduces the risk of mortality for all causes. Furthermore, with physical activity, oncological and metabolic diseases are also prevented.
That exercises carry out in addition to the simple walks
Therefore, in addition to the walking on the street or, even better, in nature, other exercises must be associated with which we can include the weight liftingfree -body exercises, running, cycling or even swimming.
All these activities, in fact, improve the body, strengthening, at the same time, the central nervous systemalso preserving hormonal balance, but not only: in fact, chronic inflammation is also held under control, which is the basis of various degenerative pathologies.
Regular muscle training also contributes to emotional stability and al cognitive well -beingpromoting a higher quality of life.