Vishen Lakhiani argues that people over 50 should prioritize strength training and action sports like skiing and tennis over swimming. Skiing adds roughly 10 years to life, tennis 9 years, while swimming adds only 3 to 3.5 years. Weight-bearing exercise preserves muscle and bone density, which protect balance, agility, and brain function.
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About 3–3.5 years.
Skiing / snowboarding (action sports).
Tennis ~9 years; badminton ~7 years; soccer ~6 years.
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Most people think about skateboarding or surfing or snowboarding, as these are the activities I'm going to stop doing. Right. And they're the exact activities we want to be turning towards. Yeah. So it's really. It's counterintuitive. So you're saying as we go into our 50s, that's exactly the sports we want to take. I'll give you. I'll give you another one. The sport that a lot of older adults go towards is swimming. Why? Because if there's no pressure on the joints and everything's right, you hear all that. And swimming's good. It will. If you have a regular. If you swim regularly, it can add about like three, three and a half years to your life. Skiing, snowboarding, action sports will give you 10, tennis will give you nine. Bad midden, seven, soccer, six. Right. So swimming is the activity most people turn to. But the problem with it is bone density decreases over time. When you're swimming, you're not loading your bones. So the reason strength training matters over time. One you. Because muscles, muscle fibers decrease over time and want to counteract that. But also bone density decreases over time and to load our bones. And bones are crucial for balance, agility, all. All the physical side of it. But people don't realize this. The bones are the mineral factory of the body. So as we lose bone density, the brain, for example, runs on calcium, among other materials. Where do you think it gets that comes from our bottom.