Heaps in old age. What to do? To envy!

"How do the well-known bodybuilders (pitching) look like in old age? Is there any expectation of those who are engaged in "iron" in future to pay for the credit taken from nature? "- they often ask idle minds, confusing those who would like to seriously engage in this sport.

Thinking this "bike", chubby fatty cheerfully giggle, rather stroking his "beer" tummies. Note that often this kind of reasoning is based on primitive, known to all anecdotal labels about spontaneously trained ignoramuses. Do not argue with them, just put in this article photos of bodybuilders in old age. Let firstly it will be 70-year-old American Frank Zane, thrice in his youth, won the title of "Mr. Olympia."

However, we will try to understand this issue, based on medical information and facts. What is the relationship of old age? With natural processes. As you know, after 20 years in every subsequent decade, oxygen consumption is reduced by 10%.

But do you know that vision and hearing deteriorate from the age of twelve already ?!

On the question of whether bodybuilding activates metabolic processes that counteract old age, it is best to answer the photos of "before" and "after". Look, in what an amazing form continues to be another outstanding athlete, Lou Ferrigno. In the second photo under the account it is displayed in 70th years of the last century. Of course, bodybuilders, "gaining years", should not give up training. It makes sense. The facts collected by scientists (Taft University in Boston), irrefutably testify to the rejuvenating action of bodybuilding. Continuing training with reduced loads, older bodybuilders are less likely to feel the aging process, feeling "at ease".

Pay attention to the following photo of the same athlete in 62 years!

It should immediately be made a reservation that people who do not practice sports in younger years, it is desirable to "softly" enter the training regime, stay "for insurance" under the supervision of a doctor. Does it make sense in this? Judge for yourself.

It is established that pitching in old age does not suffer from osteoporosis, the strength of bones in them is at the proper level. How does this happen? Let's imagine the picture of the assimilation of calcium by bones. Suppose that the human body received food. Organs and systems "take away" their own substances according to pre-compiled "applications". And in the training organism these requests are more impressive. "Yes, I need calcium for bones, so that I can withstand the load!" - screams the athlete's skeleton, and receives it. And the body of a relaxed person, who is in idleness, easily throws out precious substances. After all, to lie on the couch, you do not need to have solid, healthy bones. After reading the last sentence, you, please, stop. Now it will not be about the athlete. The usual 60-year-old "normal", "fading" American grandfather Jeffrey Life, who suffers from dyspnoea and complains of the heart, once said to his age: "Stop!" - and started bodybuilding. How he began to 74 years, see for yourself, see the photo below. (To the right, of course, is he now.) What did you think?)

Having mobile and "worked" joints, pitching in old age successfully "pass by" arthritis. The joints themselves, "crying to the body", "pull" from the food they put glucosamine, chondroitin, methylsulfonylmethane, silicon. However, here it is necessary to make a reservation. With age, it is still necessary to reduce the accentuated load on the joints within reasonable limits.

Australia recognizes Ray Moon as the world's oldest bodybuilder. At 83, he starts every morning with a run and, in addition, takes part in international competitions. Prior to active sports, he survived polio, heart surgery and prostate disease. On his example, we see not hidden, but obvious "bonuses" from periodic moderate occupations. A trained cardiovascular system successfully resists the most dangerous diseases for pensioners. "Sports" heart with elastic walls of blood vessels can push up to 42 liters of blood per minute. Thanks to such a stable work of the main organ, they receive a guaranteed "nutrition" and all blood vessels. A person does not go to hospitals, but continues to live actively. Sports loads are an effective "cleaning agent" for cholesterol vessels. Therefore, the question of unstable blood pressure in a bodybuilder also becomes irrelevant.

Do not long persuade readers that the scourge of modern civilization is depression. We all watch information programs and interact with the society. So, scientists of the University of Taft have established that the brain of a training person, including old age, synthesizes special substances - antidepressants. Slender muscular body helps to get rid of mental "complexes", allows a person to feel more confident and more natural.

Concluding the article, we note that pitching in old age continues to be for his generation, and not only, a model of a sensible, reasonable attitude to health. Does this make sense? Obviously. Let's remember the thousand-year ancient tradition. Even in ancient Greece and Rome, a person not engaged in physical culture was considered ignorant, uncultured. Will modern civilization come to similar views?