Dynapenic https://fitgreystrong.com Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:12:04 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://fitgreystrong.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cropped-Untitled-design-7-1-32x32.png Dynapenic https://fitgreystrong.com 32 32 Resistance Training for Older Adults: 12 Evidence-Based Reasons (Part 2) https://fitgreystrong.com/12-reasons-why-older-athletes-need-to-hit-the-gym-part-2/ https://fitgreystrong.com/12-reasons-why-older-athletes-need-to-hit-the-gym-part-2/#comments Thu, 14 Nov 2024 20:22:00 +0000 http://fitgreystrong.com/?p=1160 In part 1 of “Resistance Training for Older Adults: 12 Evidence-Based Reasons” I outlined some of the benefits to health that have been shown to occur as a result of partaking in regular resistance training exercise. The scientific evidence supporting the inclusion of resistance training as part of a healthy lifestyle is now indisputable. Whilst...

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]]> https://fitgreystrong.com/12-reasons-why-older-athletes-need-to-hit-the-gym-part-2/feed/ 3 Strength Training Alters The Trajectory Of Ageing https://fitgreystrong.com/strength-training-benefits-and-aging/ https://fitgreystrong.com/strength-training-benefits-and-aging/#comments Tue, 23 Jul 2024 02:30:00 +0000 http://fitgreystrong.com/?p=103 On a global scale, the number of people over 60 yr is expected to more than double from 841 million in 2012 to more than 2 billion by 2050. This change in demographics will have profound implications for many aspects of life. Furthermore, Government bodies worldwide will be faced with considerable challenges related to aging...

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]]> https://fitgreystrong.com/strength-training-benefits-and-aging/feed/ 14 Resistance Training for Older Adults: 12 Evidence-Based Reasons (Part 1) https://fitgreystrong.com/resistance-training-for-older-adults/ https://fitgreystrong.com/resistance-training-for-older-adults/#comments Sun, 02 Apr 2023 12:56:00 +0000 http://fitgreystrong.com/?p=1039 What are benefits of resistance training for older adults? Increases longevity and improves quality of life Helps manage hypertension and decreases heart disease Enhances sleep quality and quantity Prevents/treats type 2 diabetes & decreases inflammation Prevents cognitive decline & neurodegenerative disease Improves mental health  Enhances skeletal health Maintains or increases lean body mass (muscle) Increases strength, power,...

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]]> https://fitgreystrong.com/resistance-training-for-older-adults/feed/ 3 Is Creatine As Good As It’s Cracked Up To Be? Older Adults and Resistance Training https://fitgreystrong.com/is-creatine-as-good-as-its-cracked-up-to-be-older-adults-resistance-training-and-efficacy/ https://fitgreystrong.com/is-creatine-as-good-as-its-cracked-up-to-be-older-adults-resistance-training-and-efficacy/#comments Tue, 25 May 2021 11:09:00 +0000 http://fitgreystrong.com/?p=3987 What is creatine?  To read the updated 2026 version click here. The use of creatine (Cr) can be traced back to the early 1990s when several elite sprint athletes reported performance-enhancing benefits following gold medal winning performances at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games (Anderson, 1993). This sparked the birth of a new era with creatine...

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]]> https://fitgreystrong.com/is-creatine-as-good-as-its-cracked-up-to-be-older-adults-resistance-training-and-efficacy/feed/ 3 Why The “Strengthification” Of Gen X’ers & Baby Boomers Is The Greatest Health Challenge Of The 21st Century https://fitgreystrong.com/why-the-strengthification-of-gen-xers-baby-boomers-is-the-greatest-health-challenge-of-the-21st-century/ https://fitgreystrong.com/why-the-strengthification-of-gen-xers-baby-boomers-is-the-greatest-health-challenge-of-the-21st-century/#respond Sat, 03 Feb 2018 06:36:04 +0000 http://fitgreystrong.com/?p=2202 Last October l presented at the Ancestral Health Society of New Zealand (AHSNZ) International symposium with the title of my talk: “Why the “strengthification” of Gen X’ers & Baby Boomers is the greatest health challenge of the 21st century”. In this session I discussed a number of things in relation to ageing and the dynapenic/sarcopenic...

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]]> https://fitgreystrong.com/why-the-strengthification-of-gen-xers-baby-boomers-is-the-greatest-health-challenge-of-the-21st-century/feed/ 0 FitGreyStrong turns 2 https://fitgreystrong.com/fitgreystrong-turns-2/ https://fitgreystrong.com/fitgreystrong-turns-2/#comments Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:42:02 +0000 http://fitgreystrong.com/?p=2652 Since the publication of the first FitGreyStrong blog ‘Sitting yourself into your grave‘ just over 2 years ago (click on the link or see the picture below), there have been a significant number of milestones and achievements that I would like to share with all of my followers.     There are now over 20,000...

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