Then the typical rate of muscle loss really begins to outpace the rate of muscle gain, so that there’s an increasing net deficit, says Robert Wolfe, a professor of geriatrics and director of the Center for Translational Research in Aging and Longevity at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Indeed, some data suggests that men who lift weights a few times a week in their 50s and 60s can maintain their muscle mass, not simply slow the rate of decline, in those years, she says. Insufficient protein, especially if it’s accompanied by insufficient calories in general, can contribute to sarcopenia, says Douglas Paddon-Jones, director of exercise studies for the General Clinical Research Center at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Many obese folks have muscle in addition to excess body fat, which may protect them—but because obesity carries its own health risks, it’s better to be leaner and build up muscle through exercise. A balanced exercise program, at whatever age or fitness level, is a good place to start to help protect against sarcopenia, as well as osteoporosis, and to promote other health benefits. Aerobic exercise does not halt muscle loss let alone build muscle. read more

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I thought Iād had experience with all sorts of fitness routines in my life, but working out with a real physical trainer, C. For a week, we met him every day after work for a session packed with an unbelievable amount and variety of exercises that we would never have thought of otherwise. Robert Spilman, 17, son of Rob and Nancy Spilman of Martinsville, has been working out with C. Brandon Burgess, 15, son of Michelle and Everett Burgess of Martinsville, agreed that C. When heād tell me to hold a pose, I would think I was past the required 10 or 30 seconds while his stopwatch was making me hold out to the real time. Working out with a trainer also puts you before an objective judge who can correct your form and routines to get you back on track . read more

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Protein supplements for men; they’re suppose to build muscle mass–but how effective are they? Eating disorders in our female athletes has grabbed the headlines for many years, but what about the male athletes? While they too can struggle with an eating disorder, another phenomenon has emerged that appears more problematic and that is the development of muscle mass. Visit any of the area gyms or health stores and you will be amazed at the magnitude of protein supplements. I spoke with a number of physicians and unanimously, they all agreed that they would not recommend these types of supplements. These mean the manufacturer has undergone voluntary evaluation of product purity, strength, labeling and weight variation. read more

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In a study that gives women reason to hope that time spent in a massaging pedicure chair might whittle the waistline, Oregon State University researchers report whole-body vibration can slow weight gain — at least in rats. Researchers from the university’s department of nutrition and exercise science placed 7-month-old rats on a vibration platform and let the little fellers shake for 30 minutes a day, five days a week. After 12 weeks, the vibrated rats weighed less, showed no changes in lean muscle mass and had a lower overall percentage of body fat than the rats that hadn’t been vibrated. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement , Privacy Policy and Advertising Agreement . read more

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Hiberna licensed technology developed by CU-Boulder Professor Leslie Leinwand based on the natural ability of pythons to increase their heart size by up to 60 percent and speed their metabolism by 40-fold after feeding episodes. Leinwand said the ability of pythons and other constricting snakes to enlarge and then decrease their heart muscle mass in just days may help researchers target new drugs for treating cardiac growth in response to disease, which causes human heart muscle to thicken and decreases the size of heart chambers and heart function. Increases in cardiac size are clinically important because heart enlargement in humans resulting from exercise is beneficial, but heart enlargement from high blood pressure is unhealthy, said Leinwand, who studies genetic heart defects. Understanding which genes are involved in regulating the python’s rapid heart muscle changes may have implications for treating cardiac hypertrophy, or thickening of the heart muscle, she said. Leinwand has studied hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, a genetic disease marked by a thickening of heart muscle related to a weakness in individual muscle fibers that causes them to work harder to pump blood and consequently enlarge. read more

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Tips help you run smart at any age | news-press. Use of this site signifies your agreement to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy , updated March 2007. read more

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And unlike their famous motto, when it comes to coping with LIFE after DANGER, Who Dares does not always Win. Some had already gone mad—others were well on the way. He was a curate at St Peter’s and St James’s church in Hereford, where the SAS is based. His motto was, ‘Better to spend one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep’. She survived but French cops wanted him sectioned. read more

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So when the Nationalist Congress Party chief and Union minister referred Dr Manmohan Singh [ Images ] — twice in a week — as the United Progressive Alliance’s prime ministerial candidate for the 2009 polls, it raised many political eyebrows. That Sharad Pawar [ Images ] is rooting for Dr Singh — earlier Amar Singh [ Images ] made similar noises — does not mean that he will become prime minister if the UPA emerges victorious. Even if the Congress maintains its present tally — that is, if its pluses in Kerala [ Images ] , Punjab, Madhya Pradesh [ Images ] and Rajasthan offset its minuses in Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi [ Images ] , Haryana and possibly Maharashtra — its allies, particularly the Rashtriya Janata Dal and Ā Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, are not expected to do as well this time. If there is a possibility of a Third Front leading the government,Ā there will be several contenders for PMship — Mayawati [ Images ] , Sharad Pawar, Mulayam Singh Yadav [ Images ] ,Ā Lalu Prasad, Chandrababu Naidu [ Images ] , Nitish Kumar or someone who is a “dark horse” of the HD Deve Gowda or the IK Gujaral ilk. Now that he is supporting the Congress and planning to forge an electoral alliance with it in Uttar Pradesh [ Images ] , Mulayam Singh Yadav is also hoping to become more acceptable to the Congress. read more

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DARA TORRES , the 41-year-old Olympic swimmer with the impossibly chiseled abs who collected three silver medals in Beijing, has proved at the elite level that getting older doesn’t mean getting slower in the water. Researchers at the Counsilman Center for the Science of Swimming at Indiana University have found that the larger population of Masters swimmers (made up of 42,500 members ages 18 to 100-plus) has become faster over the last 20 years in age groups from 25 to 55, said Joel Stager, the director of the center. Chief among the reasons that Masters swimmers are becoming faster, say coaches, researchers and swimmers themselves, are improved stroke mechanics and new training methods emphasizing intensity over distance. Fitness swimmers don’t necessarily need the dolphin kick (though it is always fun to try a trick from an Olympian’s playbook), but those who want to be faster may find it useful. Stanley Shechter, 75, is still trying to master the dolphin kick, but finds an alternating-leg flutter kick to be more effective. He practiced his dives off the blocks one afternoon at Asphalt Green on the Upper East Side of Manhattan (where he belongs to the Masters team), placing one hand over the other, with fingers together to eliminate bubbles and drag, the way Patrick Cantrell, his coach, had instructed. read more

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Rather than controversial street plans, the list is based on lowest average body mass index (BMI) - a formula that factors body weight and height. BMI numbers were derived based on telephone surveys conducted by state health officials with randomly selected people 18 and over. I happen to find people who don’t obsess with their weight to be happier people than those who walk around thinking their gorgeous because they are paper thin. Here acouple of weeks ago there was an article about how skinny people had just as high cholesterol and heart disease than people with “meat” on their bones. read more

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