In this conversational video, JJ Virgin and Speaker B discuss the rapid physiological declines that accompany aging, noting that adults can lose up to 1% of muscle mass, 2‑4% of strength, and 6‑8% of power each year. Virgin emphasizes a three‑pronged resistance‑training approach that targets hypertrophy (muscle size), strength (maximal load) and power (speed of movement) by using heavier loads and fast concentric phases. They highlight the functional relevance of compound lifts that mirror everyday tasks such as lifting groceries or stowing luggage, and note secondary health benefits: increased bone mineral density and improved skin health through greater dermal thickness and elasticity. The discussion also covers specific supplementation—creatine HCl combined with magnesium glycinate and taurine (the “trifecta”) and JJ’s chiotene product—explaining how these nutrients support workout performance, recovery, collagen production, and skin elasticity. Overall, the video provides practical, evidence‑informed recommendations for mitigating age‑related muscle loss while also enhancing bone and skin health.
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As we age, we are going to be losing up to 1% of our muscle each year, 2 to 4% of our strength, and 6 to 8% of our power.
This is why I like to focus on not just resistance training to stimulate that muscle protein synthesis and stimulate that hypertrophy, but also I like to look at strength, and that's why I like to go heavier. And then also moving that exercise through the, the shortening phase, the concentric phase, as fast as possible. So they can also pull in the power. Hypertrophy is the size of the muscle.
Strength is how heavy you can do something one time.
And power is how fast you can do it.
The other cool side effect of doing this is we're doing compound exercises that mimic a lot of the exercises that you go out and do during the day.
Like I think of, we joke about it, my husband and I travel a lot.
Think about the times you have to put something in an overhead bin.
You have to lift groceries up or lift suitcases up.
This is why we're doing those things so we can get better at life.
The other cool side effect of doing resistance training is that it's also really good for bone mineral density.
And when I think of something like an overhead press specifically, that is putting load all down the spine.
Now, something you may not have realized that exercise can be good for, because it's, it's kind of counterintuitive, is that exercise is also great for your skin, for actually improving skin elasticity and dermal thickness. And by the way, bonus points if you're taking my chiotene product alongside this.
I'm a big fan of creatine HCL.
I put creatine HCL with magnesium glycinate and taurine as the trifecta product to help you work out harder and recover better. But one of the things that creatine also helps you do is, is helps with good skin elasticity. So, and resistance training also helps with skin elasticity and dermal thickness. So not only is this gonna help counteract the effects of aging in terms of muscle loss, but it also helps with your skin.
In fact, we also know resistance training increases, um, your dermal thickness by stimulating fibroblast activity, which helps with collagen production.
Creatine does this too, by the way, helps with collagen production.
So think about this in terms of your arms because you wanna have the muscles in there. You don't wanna have that flabby skin. So it's helping with the flabby skin. And it's helping with the muscle.
