Originally Posted by
TenTigers
Slowing down is a choice. "If you rest, you rust!"
If you keep training, especially flexibility and resistance, you won't be hobbling and shuffling around like Tim Conway.
If you continue to read, and challenge your mind, you will remain alert and sharp.
(barring any genetic disease, such as Alzheimer's)
If your body releases less growth hormone, and loses muscle and skeletal mass and density after 30, then your need to make adjustments.
Resistance training releases gh, and increases (or maintains) bone and muscle.
As you age...you should increase your activity, not the other way around.
One of my teachers is 76, and still moves like someone 30 yrs younger.
RK has teabagged the correct !
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !