The more I study the importance of resistance training and the more I study the importance

of doing weights, especially as you age, the more I've, the more I started kicking myself

for being lazy about that.

So now I try to do good two strength workouts out of every week at least and take it more seriously. Because especially

as your age, loss of muscle mass can be really debilitating. The technical term for that is

sarco penia. Sarko is the Greek word for muscle and penia is loss, so muscle loss. So as people get

older, they tend to lose muscle.

And when you do that, you become frail and you lose functional capacity.

And then that starts off a vicious cycle, right?

Once that happens, then you'll be less likely to be physically active.

And then, of course, when you're less physically active, your muscles begin to waste away more.

And it's very debilitating. So I think as we get older,

and I'm getting older, it's more and more important, you know, to kind of incorporate that.

So I think that's the one thing that I've taken to heart.

From what you said there, it sounds like not doing resistance training, not doing, not lifting

weights as you age, almost accelerates aging in any sort of

superficial sense. But also in a physiological sense, you're, you're increasing the speed of aging.

Yeah, I'm not sure if I think about it that way, but I think I kind of reverse it slightly,

which is that, you know, aging is just the clock ticking on, right? There's

nothing we can do about age, but senescence is the way our bodies degrade as we get older. And what

physical activity does, actually maybe the most important thing about physical activity, is that it slows

senescence, especially for certain organs and systems. And there are different

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