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Posted on 05/18/2025 9:12:21 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Maybe it’s my age, or maybe it’s the fact that anti-aging and life extension have exploded into a multi-billion-dollar industry over the past two decades, but every time I scroll through social media, I get pitched the latest miracle cure to turn back the clock and slow the aging process.
What is ironic is the best hedge against aging is something I’ve been doing almost daily since I was 15, lifting weights and training for strength.
If you want to age well, you don’t need another supplement, you need to get stronger. I’ve been saying this for years. Now, the research has finally caught up.
A recent 12 year study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research tracked adults over 50 and found that those with low grip strength had a 45% higher risk of death.
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Use it or lose it is not just a phrase ... in this context it is absolutely true.
Do SOMETHING, folks. Walk, run, lift, swim, aerobics, yoga, Pilates, barre, crossfit.
Do SOMETHING.
Strong People Are Harder to Kill / John Welbourn
“Do SOMETHING, folks. Walk, run, lift, swim, aerobics, yoga, Pilates, barre, crossfit.
Do SOMETHING. “
Hard physical work is best. Even if it is a hobby and for fun. Get OFF the couch...
How old are you on calendar? I am 85 and have more muscles now than at age 57 when I had more fat than muscles.
I do not lift weights. My exercise is brisk walking with wrist weights every day to cover one mile. I have zero medical issues and can mow my suburban sized lawn with a push mower.
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You can lose it even using it as you age. Sarcopenia is going to occur. Using it is important to keeping it. Ensuring adequate protein intake and good fats is also important.
You are just a baby compared to me 😄
God bless you
I will post my photo soon to see what a man in mid-80’s can look like physically. It just takes a little bit of discipline.
I am assuming that this study controlled for sex - because otherwise the overwhelming majority of those adults over 50 years old with low grip strength will have been women.
Pound for pound of body weight, men have much stronger grips than women. So I would guess that women injury themselves far more frequently and severely in falls.
Now factor in the increased incidence of osteoporosis in women.
Thoughts, anyone?
Regards,
Sorry!
Concerning the claim that the probands with lower grip strength had a 45% higher risk of death - does than men: for all causes? Not just due to falls (where, I am assuming, grip strength can prevent falls or at least reduce their severity)?
Also: Isn't it an established fact that grip strength is the most difficult to increase through training (exercise)?
I can easily imagine an erstwhile "couch potato" doubling or even tripling the strength of, e.g., his legs or his arms - but of his grip?! Is that even possible?
Regards,
If you ignore the initial phase of learning a new movement and neurological adaptation that occurs during the first two months and call that baseline, a couch potato may never double their main lifts (bench, squat, deadlift). Grip is no different; you don’t even need grip specific exercises. Deadlifts, bent rows and pull ups will dramatically improve grip and can be started at any fitness level. If you can do it, climbing improves grip the most, but requires significant fitness level and lean body weight.
I’ve seen studies like this, and they usually separate men and women. Peripheral circulation and nervous system goes first, and that leads to loss of grip strength. I don’t think it has any direct connection to falls, it means your body is failing. If you have chronic carido-respiratory disease exercise my improve QoL a bit and extend life slightly, but no silver bullet. If you do hard exercise your entire life, you will probably live longer with a higher QoL.
Fascinating! I would never have thought that!
Regards,
Regular exercise helps you live longer (or perhaps it just seems to). Almost 80 and except for daily walks (about a mile) I have not had any organized exercise since I got out of the Army in 1967. Bless those that do, they know what is best for themselves.
I scare myself. Late into my sixth decade of life and I can consistently bench press 30% more than my body weight. I’m lifting heavier now than 20+ years ago. Granted, I require a lot more recovery time, but Creatine and consistency helps. I do fear slowing down, and I am, but Lord willing, I’m not going to sit around let entropy consume me.
100 percent right.
I know. That was my point.
“….but of his grip?! Is that even possible?“
Of just yeah but hell yeah. Grip strength is created by muscles. My job among other things promotes grip strength specifically. Between operating pneumatic hammers for hours on end, dragging 300 feet of 3/4 inch inside diameter air hose, 50 foot lengths at once,three per hand, hanging on to an industrial size blast nozzle for hours and dragging a 150 lb blast tank over rough ground for up to 350 feet you develop half decent grip strength relatively speaking. I’ve heard guys in my industry joke about it once or twice over the years.
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