If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.
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According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September.Kenneth H. Cooper
I've got many examples of people who have been exercising for 15 years and who are now 70, and their heart rate is the same as when they were 50.
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We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.
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I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training.
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I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956.
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