Heinz, it absolutely does. Carrying firewood or groceries count. Picking up a child counts. Bodyweight lunges count. Anything that puts your muscles under healthy stress.
This is so helpful! It reinforces what I’ve been hearing: 2x/week moderate but somewhat challenging strength training, especially if doing complex moves to target multiple, opposing muscle groups, pays big dividends. I’m 65 and only recently developed a consistent 2 x/week strength training habit. I’m seeing positive results. I’m glad to learn it’s helping my brain too!
Thanks for the disclosure of your use of AI—some Stacks are spitting out tons of data/essays/books—so much so it has to be largely AI generated—-it’s clogging my inbox. I unsubscribed due to info overload.
Not your post here—prudent use of AI but collated by a human!
Glad this is helpful to you. Sounds like you’re on a well-informed path to strength training in a balanced way. As for AI, I too am dismayed by how quickly so many creators on Substack are substituting AI slop for original thought and intellectual composition — without disclosing it. Several doctors I’ve noticed doing this, specifically. Essentially, trading on their medical authority to give people anodyne AI answers.
This is just me observing how people age in more remote places, like the mountain town I live in, but those still involved in heavy physical work (chopping wood, gardening, plowing, planting, harvesting) are visibly aging better than those who are not. Men stay active until late years. My neighbor is 83 and fitter than I am. Women live longer on average but are less involved in load bearing activities, and the cognitive decline is more visible. I wonder if this has something to do with decades of different physical load?
Does kettlebell training count?
Heinz, it absolutely does. Carrying firewood or groceries count. Picking up a child counts. Bodyweight lunges count. Anything that puts your muscles under healthy stress.
Thank you for this post! Just lifted weights today ✔️ my brain 🧠 will thank me for this!
Anney V for the win. Well done. You did your body and brain a solid today. Keep going.
Lean protein? Flip that pyramid ;) great tips
I’ve been trying to make more of my weekly protein plant-based. But I still enjoy chicken, fish and venison.
This is so helpful! It reinforces what I’ve been hearing: 2x/week moderate but somewhat challenging strength training, especially if doing complex moves to target multiple, opposing muscle groups, pays big dividends. I’m 65 and only recently developed a consistent 2 x/week strength training habit. I’m seeing positive results. I’m glad to learn it’s helping my brain too!
Thanks for the disclosure of your use of AI—some Stacks are spitting out tons of data/essays/books—so much so it has to be largely AI generated—-it’s clogging my inbox. I unsubscribed due to info overload.
Not your post here—prudent use of AI but collated by a human!
Glad this is helpful to you. Sounds like you’re on a well-informed path to strength training in a balanced way. As for AI, I too am dismayed by how quickly so many creators on Substack are substituting AI slop for original thought and intellectual composition — without disclosing it. Several doctors I’ve noticed doing this, specifically. Essentially, trading on their medical authority to give people anodyne AI answers.
This is just me observing how people age in more remote places, like the mountain town I live in, but those still involved in heavy physical work (chopping wood, gardening, plowing, planting, harvesting) are visibly aging better than those who are not. Men stay active until late years. My neighbor is 83 and fitter than I am. Women live longer on average but are less involved in load bearing activities, and the cognitive decline is more visible. I wonder if this has something to do with decades of different physical load?
so older women in your area are more likely to have cognitive impairment than men, while also being observationally less physically active — wow