Younger Next Year: The Exercise Program: Use the Power of Exercise to Reverse Aging and Stay Strong, Fit, and Sexy by Chris Crowley & Henry S. Lodge

Author:Chris Crowley & Henry S. Lodge [Crowley, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Published: 2015-12-14T23:00:00+00:00

The Doctor Is In: The Good Stress of Weight Training

Remember what you learned earlier about C-6 and C-10 back in Chapter One? Well, the motions of daily life are not enough to turn on the C-10 of growth. It takes a critical amount of effort to cross that threshold and secrete enough C-6 to trigger the production of C-10. You get this through strength training. You need to do strength training to cross that threshold for power and coordination, to get C-10 into your neural networks, into the meat of your muscles, into your joints, and into your tendons.

Aerobic exercise takes you across the threshold for endurance, circulation, and longevity, but you need strength training for power and neural coordination. A single step on level ground doesn’t turn on C-10. Nor does climbing a few stairs. But climbing stairs until you feel your legs burn will turn on C-10. Lifting weights until you can’t lift them anymore? That really turns on C-10.

This is why you have to push to the point of muscle fatigue with weights—to that burning feeling in your muscles that most of us would skip if we could. A trainer (see here) will eventually make sure you lift enough weight to cycle all the way through the reserve capacity of your strength cells. To lift ten or twelve times in a row and then do it again. Done right, you will drain your muscles of all their energy and then force them to contract a few more times. That’s the critical part; that’s how you intentionally damage your muscle cells. Not your muscles, just the muscle cells. And you damage them quite a lot. On purpose. Electron microscope pictures of muscle show extensive damage at the cellular level after a weight workout. That’s fine and what your body needs. Your muscles will quiver and burn, which is not fun, but inside you will be forcing your brain to activate all your strength units. Do this for three sets, and you will have forced your body to damage all those strength units, which then forces it to repair all those strength units. Growth, strength—youth.

(By the way, don’t confuse damaging your muscle cells by exhausting them with damaging your muscles and joints by overloading them.)

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