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To: cloudmountain

I’m 56 and have none of the things you described, nor do most of the women may age I know. We all work out together so I think I’d know. I have also taught pilates and strengh training for several years now. None of us has had any kind of surgery.

I actually could make the case that your list describes a great deak of the men I know over the after of 50.


67 posted on 02/20/2014 2:05:50 PM PST by beandog (All Aboard the Choo Choo Train to Crazy Town)
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To: beandog
I’m 56 and have none of the things you described, nor do most of the women may age I know. We all work out together so I think I’d know. I have also taught pilates and strengh training for several years now. None of us has had any kind of surgery.

You are probably in GREAT shape now. I've taught THOUSANDS of adult students but what would I know? I tell it like I see it...and I've seen so many bodies that it's second nature for me to see people's bodies -- with their accompanying odd movements, problems, etc.
Lol. I used to tell my students that I probably wouldn't recognize them, their faces, if I saw them in the street, but I WOULD recognize their bodies, the way they walked and so on. It was true.

One woman at Church was kneeling on ONE knee only, her right knee, and her left foot wasn't on the kneeler but was way back away from her. After Mass I talked to her about it: about how misaligned she was and that she OUGHT to kneel on BOTH knees EVENLY. If she continued kneeling that way she WOULD eventually have problems in her knees, thighs, hips and lower back...only the truth.
She thanked me and HAS felt better. She was ALREADY beginning to feel the repercussions of kneeling in an unbalanced, misaligned way. She hadn't even been aware of the way she was kneeling...not a CLUE.

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I actually could make the case that your list describes a great deak of the men I know over the after of 50.

No doubt since both genders have the SAME muscles and bones. Whether over or under 50, the bodies of men and women tend to age the same: SAGGY. That's the deal with all humans of all races. Maybe you don't like the adjective SAGGY but what else would you call it? NOT taut? NOT the same as when younger?

Men DO have more muscle (about 7% more) and that muscle is very helpful to them. Ten pounds of fat looks like a volleyball while ten pounds of muscle looks like a baseball. Male muscles let men age more like a baseball while women's muscle (AND 14% more body fat than men) makes them age like a volleyball.
It AIN'T pretty but we can take it up with our Maker when we finally meet Him. [I ASSUME that you and I will indeed finally meet Him.]

68 posted on 02/21/2014 4:01:39 PM PST by cloudmountain
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