With aging and weight loss, decrease in muscle mass and strength can progress to functional limitations and a greater risk for death -- but awareness, screening, and simple strength training can help.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Comprehensive Weight Control Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York , NYServe as a director, officer, partner, employee, advisor, consultant, or trustee for: Measured Losses of muscle and strength are inescapable effects of the aging process. Left unchecked, these progressive losses will start to impair physical function.
With just one session per week over 10 weeks, lean body mass , a common proxy for muscle mass, increased by 0.33 kg, according to awhich evaluated LBM improvements across different strength training frequencies. Adding a second weekly session was significantly better. In the twice-weekly group, LBM increased by 1.4 kg over 10 weeks, resulting in an increase in LBM more than four times greater than the once-a-week group.
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