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Poster: Spikez
Subject: RE: 50+ Masters Training and Racing Open Forum
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lucKY2b wrote:


Top Cat, old guy II: these things that creep up on us that "never had that before" are the tough to acknowledge as we get older. Keeps one constantly guessing when too much is too much, or whether we need to modify our training to incorporate things that we used to take for granted. I'm now rethinking how much strength training I should be doing. Up to now, I've never done any work with weights, just calisthenics. I figured my own weight was enough, but I think that as we get older, we need more resistance training to stay sharp...I think I'd like to investigate more about that sort of stuff in the coming months. Can anybody point to some good research?




My 2 cents...here is a link telling why runners should throw some resistance training into the mix. http://jvhperformance.com/?p=528

Of course being a sprinter, my resistance training needs are much greater than those of a distance runner. But for any type of runner, lean muscle mass decreases aas much as 8% for every decade of aging. If anyone is interested in the weight routine I use (mix of frees and machines plus body weight resistance work) I can post it and perhaps you can modify the reps and sets to your own use.
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