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Strength For Life
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A great story here of 73 year old Joan Macdonald who has completely changed her health & physical function by consistent engagement in strength training for the last 3 years! When will this ‘treatment’ be the norm for our ageing population? #ResistanceTrainingIsMedicine
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🏋️💪🏼The importance of muscular strength in exercise programmes
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🏋️💪🏼 Understanding of sarcopenia: from definition to therapeutic strategies
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The ‘Iron Nun’ Sister Madonna Buder is the oldest women to ever finish an Ironman triathlon aged 82 years, in a time of 16 hours 32 minutes! 🏊‍♂️ 2.4 mile swim 🚴‍♀️ 112 mile cycle 🏃‍♀️ 26.2 mile run She didn’t start running until she was 48 years of age!
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82 year old Gerry from our strength training class performing a sit to stand dumbbell thruster; 💪🏼Compound exercise that develops full body strength 🏋🏻‍♂️Increases physical reserves for activities of daily living #TrainHardLiveEasy
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🏃🏾💨73 year old Charles Allie is the worlds fastest (old) man, his records include; 🥇100m in 12.81 🥇200m in 26.11 secs 🥇400m in 57.26 secs
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🏋️💪🏼The importance of muscular strength in exercise programmes
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🎅🏼💪🏼 Christmas Competition 💪🏼🎅🏼 To support the implementation of routine strength testing in physiotherapy we will be giving away a FREE hand grip dynamometer! Retweet and like to enter, the winner will be chosen on Mon 16th December! #StrengthSavesLives
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💪🏼 Hand grip strength is one of the most evidenced based predictors of longevity & resilience to chronic disease! With good quality dynamometer’s available for £25, will 2021 be the year it is implemented more widely? #StrengthSavesLives Dyno link:
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🏋️💪Resistance training is medicine: effects of strength training on health #StrengthSavesLives
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🏋️💪🏼The Health Benefits of Resistance Exercise: Beyond Hypertrophy and Big Weights #StrengthSavesLives
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Half kneeling to single leg standing is a key multi-level transition for older adults; 💪🏼 It requires combined strength, balance & mobility to execute this effectively. 🤔 74 year old Eric has a slight discrepancy between sides, how would you work on this?
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🚫⚠️ BED REST IS TOXIC ⚠️🚫 ‘Bed rest and accelerated aging in relation to the musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems and frailty biomarkers: A review.’ #EndPJparalysis #StrengthSavesLives
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🏋️💪Resistance training is medicine: effects of strength training on health
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The relationship between sarcopenia and frailty #StrengthSavesLives
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🏋️👵🏼Resistance Training for Older Adults: Position Statement from the National Strength and Conditioning Association
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A new paradigm in sarcopenia: Cognitive impairment caused by imbalanced myokine secretion and vascular dysfunction
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🏋️💪🏼The importance of muscular strength in exercise programmes
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💪💪This is a key study for anyone interested in the role of skeletal muscle in health and disease #StrengthSavesLives
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🏋️👴🏼💪🏼Strength training for older adults: What the public health messaging should be
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🏋️💪🏼Strength training in elderly: An useful tool against sarcopenia
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🏋️💪🏼 Importance of resistance training in early life
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We recently put together a presentation for a medical department who required key info to obtain funding to improve older adult strength training interventions. We’ve made the slides publicly available in case anyone else would find them useful.🏋️‍♀️💪🏼
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🏋️💪🏼 Effects of (in)activity and resistance training on physical and cognitive function across the lifespan #StrengthSavesLives
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The Benefits of Strength Training on Musculoskeletal System Health: Practical Applications for Interdisciplinary Care
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Strength training in elderly: An useful tool against sarcopenia
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Strength training for clinical conditions super thread 👇 🧵 #StrengthSavesLives
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💪🏼🧠Exercise and Neuroprotection
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🏋️💪🏼Resistance Training for Older Adults: Position Statement From the National Strength and Conditioning Association
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👴🏻💪 Resistance Training for Older Adults: Position Statement from the National Strength and Conditioning Association
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6 years
Strength training stimulates unique adaptations that provide beneficial effects for different medical pathologies. Recent research has shown that strength training has positive effects for the following conditions!👇🏋️‍♀️💪🏼 #strengthforlife
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Here are three resources we have put together to support engagement in strength training for key population demographics; 🏋🏻‍♂️🏋🏼‍♀️S & C for public health 👴🏼👵🏻S & C for older adults 📉💪🏼Deconditioning
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💪🧠 Strength training is shown be the most efficient method to improve functional outcomes in chronic stroke patients How many patients would have been told they have no therapy needs at 1-5 years post stroke...but there is always an exercise need #StrengthSavesLives
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Resistance Exercise Training as a Primary Countermeasure to Age-Related Chronic Disease #StrengthSavesLives
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Osteosarcopenia: A geriatric giant
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Resistance Exercise, Aging, Disuse, and Muscle Protein Metabolism
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🏋️💪🏼Supporting adolescents’ participation in muscle-strengthening physical activity: protocol for the ‘Resistance Training for Teens’
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🎅🏼💪🏼 Christmas Competition 💪🏼🎅🏼 To support the implementation of routine strength testing & training we will be giving away a FREE hand grip dynamometer & kettlebell set! Retweet and like to enter, the winner will be chosen on Mon 13th December! #StrengthSavesLives
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We have collated some key models on deconditioning here that should be useful for everyone. Please add any others we have missed to the comments 👍💪🏼 #StrengthSavesLives #EndPJparalysis Link below 👇
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🏋️💪🏼 Effects of physical exercise on physical function in older adults in residential care: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
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Resistance Exercise Training as a Primary Countermeasure to Age-Related Chronic Disease #StrengthSavesLives
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Exercise as Preventive Medicine Against Age-Related Chronic Disease
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Resistance exercise is medicine: Strength training in health promotion and rehabilitation #StrengthSavesLives
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Understanding the Science of Resistance Training: An Evolutionary Perspective 🔬💪🏼
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Resistance Exercise Training as a Primary Countermeasure to Age-Related Chronic Disease
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👴🏼💪📉 Hospital Acquired Deconditioning in Older Adults #StrengthSavesLives #EndPJparalysis
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🏋🏻‍♂️💪🏼The Benefits of Strength Training on Musculoskeletal System Health: Practical Applications for Interdisciplinary Care
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🏋️💪🏼Resistance training reduces inflammaging in older adults
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🏋️💪Resistance Exercise Reverses Aging in Human Skeletal Muscle
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The ability to get up & down from the floor without using your hands is an accurate indicator of longevity. The more ways you can do this the greater your predicted longevity is. What information does this provide & why do you think it is such an effective screening tool? 👇💬
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💪🏼🧠“May the Force (and Size) Be with You”: Muscle Mass and Function Are Important Risk Factors for Cognitive Decline and Dementia
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Minimal-Dose Resistance Training for Improving Muscle Mass, Strength, and Function: A Narrative Review of Current Evidence and Practical Considerations
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Effects of Resistance Exercise on Cerebral Redox Regulation and Cognition: An Interplay Between Muscle and Brain
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📉💪🏼Consequences of low muscle strength #StrengthSavesLives
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Sarcopenia during COVID-19 lockdown restrictions: long-term health effects of short-term muscle loss
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Exercise rescues mitochondrial coupling in aged skeletal muscle: a comparison of different modalities in preventing sarcopenia
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Protective effect of muscle mass on other body tissues
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🏋🏻‍♂️💪🏼Resistance Exercise Training as a Primary Countermeasure to Age-Related Chronic Disease
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CrossFit are doing a great job promoting the benefits of strength training for older adults and special populations! 🏋🏻‍♂️💪🏼
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"This is Pamela. Pamela is 90 years old, she lives by herself and one of her favourite things to do is look after her garden, it’s getting harder for her as she gets older so her daughter Lynne asked me to go and teach her CrossFit:
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🏋️🎥 To support easier sharing, our exercise videos are now available on YouTube #StrengthSavesLives YouTube Page Link:
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The body deconditions at a faster rate from age 45 with physical inactivity. Strength training slows down these effects & reduces the risk of disease & disability in later life! This reduces health care costs & prolongs independence & quality of life! #StrengthSavesLives
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👵🏻🏋️Resistance exercise as a treatment for sarcopenia: prescription and delivery #StrengthSavesLives
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Optimizing Outcomes in Cardiac Rehabilitation: The Importance of Exercise Intensity
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Maximizing Strength: The Stimuli and Mediators of Strength Gains and Their Application to Training and Rehabilitation
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🏋️💪🏼Myokines and Resistance Training: A Narrative Review
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🏋️💪🏼Resistance training rejuvenates aging skin
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Shin box to single leg balance movement flow; ▪️Multi-level exercise with dynamic control of COM ▪️Develops mobility, balance & movement control ▪️Important to perform drills like this alongside traditional strength exercise
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The Endocrinology of Sarcopenia and Frailty
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🏋️💪🏼Our exercises have been organised into the following playlists & are listed in order from easiest to hardest within each one -Perform 1-2 exercises from each category -Complete a few high-effort sets for each one -Do this once to twice a week Link:
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Sarcopenia, and Metabolic Repercussions: The Vicious Cycle and the Interplay with Exercise
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📉💪 Deconditioning 💪📉
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💪🏼🧠Does strength training have a neuroprotective effect in middle and older adulthood?
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There are more hospitalisations for osteoporotic fractures in women >55 than MI, stroke or breast cancer When will see an improvement in screening & exercise services to tackle this increasing issue in women’s health? #StrengthSavesLives #TestAndTrain
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🏋️💪🏼 What is the best type of resistance training for adults
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🏋️💪🏼Myokines: a descriptive review
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💪🏼📉The relationship between sarcopenia and frailty #StrengthSavesLives
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💪🏼👵🏼Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells in Aging #StrengthSavesLives
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🏋️💪Making a Strong Case for Prioritizing Muscular Fitness in Youth Physical Activity Guidelines 'Generic recommendations to simply move more are not enough to activate this generation of girls & boys who are weaker & slower than previous generations'
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Preventing sarcopenia is now viewed as a top public health priority & with an ageing population it has individual & economic consequences in excess of the obesity crisis. It is something everyone should be discussing in practice to improve health longevity & clinical outcomes
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🏋️💪🏼Multifactorial approach for building strength for life #StrengthSavesLives
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When designing strength training programmes for older adults we have to be aware of biopsychosocial factors as well as the influence of different body systems or comorbidities. Individual goals, beliefs & cultural heritage all need to be considered! #StrengthSavesLives
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Effect of Exercise Intervention on Functional Decline in Very Elderly Patients During Acute Hospitalization 💪Great to see progressive strength training implemented for hospitalised older adults in this study #StrengthSavesLives
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🏋️💪🏼A systematic review of physical function tests as predictors of key clinical outcomes for adults with blood cancers #StrengthSavesLives
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Stroke induced Sarcopenia: Muscle wasting and disability after stroke
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After 4 weeks of rack pulling Corki is now pulling 35lbs off the floor. We slowly moved the bar down from knee height to floor week to week. Off to the races
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👴🏼💪🏼🦴 Frailty: The end of the osteosarcopenia continuum?
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🎧💪🏼 Our next guest on the S4L podcast will be leading geriatric exercise physiologist @DrBenKirk We will be discussing Ben’s excellent work on the topic of osteosarcopenia and resistance training for older adults If you have any questions for Ben please comment below 👇
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Effects of Resistance Training on Muscle Size and Strength in Very Elderly Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
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👴🏼💪🏼Consequences of sarcopenia in older adults #StrengthSavesLives
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🦴 📊Bone responses to blood flow restriction exercise: new insights and future directions
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🏋️💪🏼Raising the Bar for Public Health: Resistance Training and Health Benefits #StrengthSavesLives
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🏋️💪🏼Skeletal muscle-focused guideline development: hierarchical model incorporating muscle form, function, and clinical outcomes #StrengthSavesLives
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A new paradigm in sarcopenia: Cognitive impairment caused by imbalanced myokine secretion and vascular dysfunction
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No Time to Lift? Designing Time-Efficient Training Programs for Strength and Hypertrophy: A Narrative Review
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💪🧠Mental health benefits of strength training in adults
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