How to Prevent and Reverse Muscle Loss: Tips for Building and Maintaining Muscle Mass as You Age

2023-07-02 19:19:13

Fatigue, exhaustion, and a feeling of laziness all the time accompanies Moayad (44 years old), and as a result he lost a number of his friends and became threatened with dismissal from his work, as he does not want to leave the house or make any effort recently.
Muayyad describes that he has been living in a strange situation for more than a year and a half, as the simplest activities tire him, and he no longer has the energy to do any work, even walking a short distance has become difficult and arduous for him. All of this prompted him to search for the reason, especially since he was an active person who liked to move and go out daily.
Moayad at first thought that he had a health problem that was the reason behind his constant fatigue, but after diagnosis and seeing more than one doctor, he realized that his main problem was his cessation from sports, excessive smoking, and the time factor. Age is also one of the important reasons that affect a person’s muscular structure.
Many people neglect themselves just because they are growing up, and here health problems begin to appear, and they may sometimes exacerbate only because they could not preserve the integrity of their bodies and protect them from some behaviors that we may underestimate, but they are capable of harming us. This is what many ignore, although there are scientific facts confirming that the muscle mass of a person, whether a man or a woman, weakens with age, and less active people are more likely to lose about 3-5 percent of their muscle mass.
On this, fitness trainer Qamar Saad El-Din shows that building muscles becomes more difficult after the age of thirty, but that does not mean that we neglect the issue. At the age of thirty, muscle mass begins to decline faster than it was in the twenties.
Realizing this fact, according to Saad El-Din, seriously contributes to hastening to protect the muscles instead of neglecting them and causing them more harm, and this of course requires quick steps to limit as much as possible the loss of muscle mass, whether in men or women, indicating that surrendering to laziness, lethargy and fatigue is never the solution as Most people do.
Although many may ignore the interest in their fitness in their twenties, building muscle after the age of thirties is not impossible, according to the Harvard University website, a person begins to lose 3-5 percent of muscle mass every 10 years, and this leads to a slow metabolism and an increase in fat. Therefore, it is necessary to do physical exercises and do physical activities such as brisk walking, swimming and riding a bicycle. It is also preferable to strengthen the muscles by lifting weights, pressing and squatting.
Saad El-Din points out that good balanced nutrition, drinking sufficient amounts of water, quitting smoking, and continuing to exercise as part of daily life, are all important in improving and protecting human muscle mass.
Nutrition expert Ruba Al-Abbasi confirms that the decrease in muscle mass, or the so-called aging of muscles, is a normal occurrence that occurs after the age of thirty, and this is due to several factors. The first is the decrease in hormones, secondly the nature of movement and the extent of commitment to exercise, thirdly the excess weight that results in the accumulation of fat, in addition to the extent of human exposure to the sun and access to good nutrition and sufficient amounts of protein.
According to Al-Abbasi, there are a large number of people after the age of forty who were able to maintain their muscle mass through natural health practices, such as maintaining the level of vitamin D in the body and taking care of omega-3 sources, as well as eating sufficient amounts of protein, and practicing two types of sports, regular walking. and muscle resistance exercises. Al-Abbasi concludes her speech by emphasizing the need for a person to start protecting and strengthening his muscles at an early age, because weak muscles result in weak bones, and thus this may lead to fractures and disc herniation, so it is very important to practice sports, especially water ones.
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