Joe PolishFounder of Genius Network and President of Piranha Marketing

This is how you age powerfully

29 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Joe Polish, who started lifting at 16 and is nearly 60, argues strength training prevents age-related decline. After 40, people lose about 1% muscle yearly. By 65, half of women break a hip, and roughly half of those die within a year. Training early makes these outcomes avoidable.

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Up to 1% of muscle per year.

2–4% (strength/power).

11%.

Starting at age 65, 50% of women will break a hip, and 50% of those will die within the next year.

The speaker says they have been training since age 16 and are about to turn 60, implying decades of training leading up to their 60th birthday.

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But the thing is, you have to start now. Like, I've literally been training. I'm about to turn 60, and I've been training for my 60th birthday since I was 16. I just didn't realize it. Now, the deal is, it's not too late if you're going, oh, shit, I forgot to do that. Don't worry, it's okay. However, right now is the best time to start. Because what you heard before, starting at age 40, if we don't do something about it, we start to lose up to 1% of our muscle a year. That's not the bad part. The bad part is we're losing our strength, 2 to 4%. We're losing our power. And here are the crazy, wild statistics. Age 50 to 60. 11% of the people age 50 to 60 have sarcopenia. That means they don't have enough muscle. Starting at age 65, 50% of women are going to break a hip, break a bone. 50% of them are going to die from it within the next year. This is all preventable. Stuff doesn't have to happen.