From this study Resistance Exercise Reverses Aging in Human Skeletal Muscle:
"Healthy older adults show evidence of mitochondrial impairment and muscle weakness, but that this can be partially reversed at the phenotypic level, and substantially reversed at the transcriptome level, following six months of resistance exercise training.”
In layman's terms: “Before exercise training, older adults were 59% weaker than younger, but after six months of training in older adults, strength improved significantly such that they were only 38% lower than young adults.”
Strength effects not only how young we look, but more importantly, how we young we feel. Strength training reverses many of the bio-markers of aging. This does not require hours in the gym. With high intensity strength training you can work the whole body in less than one half hour, and it only need be performed once or twice a week to see continuing results. Your life can be transformed in just minutes a week with the right exercise program.
We have such a strength training program at both our locations - New Orleans Personal Trainers and Austin Personal Trainers. A little strength training, an active lifestyle, and better eating choices is a program most people can stick to, and it can have profound effects on one's fitness and health.