struggle to walk 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 struggle to walk 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 Live FitGreyStrong ageing, health and exercise webinar https://fitgreystrong.com/live-fitgreystrong-ageing-health-and-exercise-webinar/ https://fitgreystrong.com/live-fitgreystrong-ageing-health-and-exercise-webinar/#respond Fri, 18 May 2018 12:57:16 +0000 http://fitgreystrong.com/?p=2914 FitGreyStrong specialises in the research, design and implementation of exercise-based programs that are specifically aimed to alter the trajectory of accelerated ageing caused by the sedentary lifestyles and poor nutritional practices of many older people. As many of you would appreciate, deterioration in mental and physical function across the lifespan is an inevitable consequence of...

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]]> https://fitgreystrong.com/live-fitgreystrong-ageing-health-and-exercise-webinar/feed/ 0 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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]]> https://fitgreystrong.com/fitgreystrong-turns-2/feed/ 2 Dose-Response Relationships Of Resistance Training In Healthy Old Adults: The Inter-Set Rest Period https://fitgreystrong.com/dose-response-relationships-of-resistance-training-in-healthy-old-adults-the-inter-set-rest-period/ https://fitgreystrong.com/dose-response-relationships-of-resistance-training-in-healthy-old-adults-the-inter-set-rest-period/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2016 13:26:42 +0000 http://fitgreystrong.com/?p=756 There has been a significant amount of research conducted and published recently that seeks to better understand the precise resistance training parameters required to maximise muscle strength and morphology in healthy old adults. This has been driven largely by the growing acknowledgment and concern related to the process of sacropenia that occurs with ageing whereby...

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