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Surprise, surprise- exercise helps stave off the effect of getting older. Who would have thought… Well, there is actual research that goes with the common sense. Science Daily has the details and it is worth paying attention to since we are all going to get old- well, if we don’t die of heart attacks, diabetes, etc while we are young! So I guess the point is that we need that exercise no matter how old we are. Personally, getting old and becoming immobile scares the hell out of me. The old part we really can’t change, but there is a lot we can do about quality of life as we age. Get out and do something!
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Maintaining aerobic fitness through middle age and beyond can delay biological ageing by up to 12 years and prolong independence during old age, concludes an analysis published ahead of print in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
… But the evidence shows that regular aerobic exercise can slow or reverse the inexorable decline, even in later life.
Research shows that relatively high intensity aerobic exercise over a relatively long period boosted maximal aerobic power by 25%, equivalent to a gain of 6 ml/ [kg.min], or 10 to 12 biological years.
“There seems good evidence that the conservation of maximal oxygen intake increases the likelihood that the healthy elderly person will retain functional independence,” says the author.
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