“Active older people resemble much younger people physiologically, according to a new study of the effects of exercise on aging.”

Now that I’m in my 50’s I love to read articles about older people kicking butt. I love being an active older person. I feel some of the effect from aging but I can still hang with the younger set.

Gretchen Reynolds’ New York Times article “How Exercise Keeps Us Young,” refers to a new study published in the Journal of Physiology, that Stephen Harridge, senior author of the study and director of the Centre of Human and Aerospace Physiological Sciences at King’s College London said, “We wanted to understand what happens to the functioning of our bodies as we get older if we take the best-case scenario.”

The researchers took active older people (cyclists) aka “best case scenario to see how they fare “standard benchmarks of supposedly normal aging.” I know this is a running site and the study was done with cyclists but active is active and I like to cross-train on a bike. The authors, plan to make this a longitudinal study and retest in 5 and 10 years but it is hard to argue against exercising regardless of your age, maybe even more important as we get older.

Please read the article for yourself: http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2015/01/07/how-exercise-keeps-us-young/

Train Focused, Steve Mackel CPT