A patient of mine went for a second opinion… she was told to protect her arthritic knee by resting it, so she stopped hiking and stopped gardening. When I saw her back a year later, the changes were pretty dramatic.
This episode shows that strength at our age is clearly not about how you look in a mirror. It's about whether you can carry your own groceries, get up off the floor, and stay independent decades from now, and I walk through what changed when I got her to make some basic lifestyle changes.
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Most are told or think that the changes that they witness in their abilities are just due to aging, and there’s not much you can do… Well, I think you know my thoughts on this. This guide shows how I train at 63 to keep doing the activities I want to pursue, and how I'm building my reserve capacity for the decades to come.
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