Can You Build Muscle When You’re 64

Posted: November 12th, 2010 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »

Back…way back in the early 1970′s…I met a guy who had been the
welterweight boxing champion of the world for a few years, back in
the mid 1940′s. I was in my twenties and he was in his sixties. He
was a very engaging gentleman and he challenged me to a game of
chess, which turned into several games, all of which he won.

So much for boxing damaging his brain. After that, he challenged me
to a race of two hundred yards, or so, which I lost badly. Then, it
was arm wrestling, which he won easily, and let me just say that he
was fit as a fiddle. He showed me all his photos and he knew
everybody who was anybody, once upon a time.

Looking back, some of the most striking photos were of him as a very
young man. In some of those he was 11 or 12 and he was lifting 100
pound sacks of grain, like a young Hercules. In others, he was
climbing rope in a big barn, using only his arms, which is no small
feat. That is something I’ll bet 99% of young men today could not
do.

He had a fitness routine that he did all the time, regardless of the
elements. It involved some running, some shadow boxing, lifting
different kinds of objects and carrying things. He didn’t have a
single piece of what we today would call “gym equipment.” He just
used what he had around him and quit, when he had worked up a good
sweat. At 64, he was one of the strongest people I have ever met.

A friend of mine started working out again recently, after a break
of more than twenty years. In his day, he was a pretty good athlete,
but when he started working out, he was a good 40 pounds overweight,
maybe closer to 50. His first two weeks were pretty hard on him, but
he kept at it. The only real change he made in his diet, in the
beginning, was giving up his beloved Dr. Pepper.

He lost 20 pounds in the first six weeks. But here is something very
interesting that he said. In about the fourth week of exercise, his
muscles started taking over. He was doing exercises he hadn’t done
for 20 years, but his body remembered them and just started telling
him how many to do. Then, he said…his body started telling him
some other things…like what food it wanted and what food it didn’t
want.

About seven weeks into his program, he bought a bag of sour cream
and onion potato chips, one of his favorite junk foods. About a
quarter of the way through the bag, he just stopped and threw them
away, because they had a real weird taste. He hasn’t eaten any
since.

What’s going on here is not strange. Your body is like a computer
and it keeps a record of everything you do. If you were once in very
good shape, that memory is contained in the brain. In his case, his
body is recalling the memory of what being in good shape involves
and helping him to get there. Why? Because the body wants to
function at an optimal level. If it can’t, it will adapt. But it
will also make you pay a price for that adaptation.

My Powerhouse Omega Formula will also help you get in better shape,
along with a better diet and exercise. They work hand in hand and
the sum of the parts is greater than any one, individually. Yes,
diet is good, exercise is good and fish oil is good. You’ll get some
results with each one, but you’ll achieve much greater results,
using all three at the same time:

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You can build muscle at any age and the more, the better. If we had
a rule that said everyone had to walk for 30 minutes every day, we
could empty out 20% of the people now sitting in the doctor’s
office. That would reduce health care costs substantially, but we
know that won’t happen.

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

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