only two signals you can give your body ? growth or decay and your body chooses between these two things based on the commands that you give it every single minute of every day. We were designed to move ? a lot. Vigorous movement tells your body you are alive. Inactivity and living a sedentary lifestyle tells your body you are dying.
Strength building and maintaining exercise is the master signaler, setting hundreds of chemical cascades into motion instructing your cells to renew, repair, replace and rebuild.
Our exercised muscles control the chemistry of growth. Lack of this type of movement signals the opposite, decay, degeneration and sets in place a pre programmed ‘shut down mode’ as you are telling your body that you no longer need it. Your life force is slowly but surely sucked from you.
Armed with this knowledge it is hard to believe that anyone would choose to continue down the path of ‘taking it easy’ or ‘growing old gracefully’ which really means ‘idly’. There is such a simple solution ? start and continue a proper exercise program that contains at least 60% strength building and maintaining exercise.
If you are new to exercise it is important that your program is properly set up and monitored by a fitness professional. You not only need to be taught how to do the exercises but how hard (the intensity) you need to perform them at to get the desired results. The program needs to be updated every six or so weeks to keep the results coming.
It may be a hassle to put yourself out to have to do this each week. But how much is the quality of your one and only life worth to you? It is in your hands much more than you realize. Just by adding the necessary proper exercise into your