MAT and Aging

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Last Monday I talked about raising the set point of the neuromuscular system in terms of its ability to have greater magnitudes of force placed upon it without having a decrease in its contractile efficiency.

One thing you tend to see with people as they age is the set point of their neuromuscular system begins to get lower and lower.  Activities that they used to be able to do day after day may now cause them to feel sore or achy.  They are not able to recover as quickly from these activities, which in turn may lead them to doing them less often or stopping altogether.  If enough of their physical activities are ceased, the opportunities to have appropriate forces placed upon their system in order to provide a positive stimulus may become infrequent enough that their set point begins to lower at a more rapid rate.  This, in turn, may feed the cycle of doing less than they previously could.In other words:

• As your body ages and is able to tolerate less physical activity, you may do less in order to keep feeling good

• As you do less, you may end up exposing yourself to lower amounts of appropriate and positive stimuli

• Less exposure may mean less positive responses and, ultimately, fewer positive adaptations gleaned

• If these responses and adaptations become few enough and infrequent enough, your physical decline may become more rapid

As discussed last week, one way to possibly raise your set point and potentially combat this regressive neruomuscular process is by participating in Muscle Activation Techniques™ sessions.  Since your body tends to physically regress as you age, having a means by which to not only potentially slow this regression, but also possibly improve upon your current status, can be a valuable asset in allowing you to:

• Continue doing the activities you enjoy

• Slow down the feeling of "getting old"

• Feel less "beat up", tired, sore, or achy on a day to day basis

• Return to activities you haven't done in years

Do you want to continue to engage in physical activities that feel good and that you enjoy as you age?

Inter­ested in find­ing out more? Check out the “Mus­cle Acti­va­tion Tech­niques™” page.

Inter­ested in set­ting up an assess­ment time or dis­cussing this sub­ject fur­ther? E-mail Char­lie at charlie@selfmadefitness.com.

Your body. Your training.

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