The second best time is now
When we turn 18 we wish we took up sports earlier.
When we turn 25 we wish we tried harder in school.
When we turn 35 we wish we wish we tried entrepreneurship.
When we turn 40 we wish our life away for our kids to have their best lives.
The truth is that the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.
The second best time is TODAY.
No surprises if you’ve followed me a while: the fountain of youth is your muscle mass. In fact I think it should be considered an end point goal of its own - a bio marker for overall health.
You’d be shocked to learn just how much muscle you still have the capacity to build even if you’re struggling with long term illness or feel like you’ve missed the boat in getting healthy.
Being injured at the moment, my training doesn’t stop; it just changes. Because muscle can be a magic pill for transforming health. And fortunately muscle also happens to be the only organ over which we can voluntarily exert control!
People with less muscle mass have lower rates of survival from nearly all diseases. During times of infection, physical trauma, even cancer, the human body requires a significant influx of amino acids. The body sources these from its own reserves: muscle tissue. The more high quality muscle tissue you have to draw from the longer you can survive.
Because we have the power to voluntarily control skeletal muscle, resistance training offers an important tool for immune system enhancement:
The condition of your muscle tissue can correct metabolism - we need to grow our muscles and turn them into mitochondrial manufacturing plants
It’s important to harness the body’s own ability to generate muscle thru stimulus and to use physical strength and capacity to push biochemical processes in favourable direction
Better muscle condition also means better nutrient receptivity so you lay the foundation to better build the foundation by the very thing you’re building!
Preserving your mitochondria by protecting skeletal muscle will help you maintain your body armour against metabolic imbalance and aging.
So what are you prepared to do to grant your body the gift of health and longevity today?
