Did you know that most people start to lose muscle mass after the age of 30? It’s a natural process, which speeds up by age, but it doesn’t mean it’s inevitable.
Many of us get frustrated when we don’t see the progress we expect or when it feels like we’ve stalled. But sometimes, it’s not about making leaps and bounds every week. Sometimes, it’s about maintaining what we’ve built, especially when life gets busy.
I recently spoke to one of our members who just turned 45. He felt like he was weaker than he was a few years ago. Life had thrown a lot at him recently. Full-time work, full-time studies, and far less time to train than he used to have. He could no longer manage those 5-6 workouts a week. Naturally, he was concerned about losing strength. But then he decided to put it to the test. When we checked his Handstand Push-Up (HSPU) score, something amazing happened: he beat his old score.
I made this graph to help visualise how I see that our “health buffer” works. If anything I want to make clear is that you want to stay out of the red zone as long as you can and that you can do so until you are 90 if you keep on chipping in to your health account.
This is why muscle is seen as the only way to “reverse” aging because all problems you think about with a person that is old has mostly to do with his fitness level more than a specific age on a paper.
You already belong to the exception to what most of the population is moving towards. The committed club shows that every month.