Grandma's Ninja Training Diary: Oh, My Aging Muscles!

 
Still in progress, but definitely in the line-up of future publications is Grandma's Ninja Training Diary -- the story and insights of a septaguanarian undertaking training in hopes of submitting an application tape to the ninja games (did not happen because of covid shutdowns and an interesting body discovery -- have to wait for the book to find that out). What was learned in the process, especially about the aging body and fitness, was pretty immense and will be shared in this "diary" in a unique way (experience of "Grandma" and discussion by her trainer, Brittany Renz, author of Girl, You Got This!) intended to help those who are already in retirement keep fit. 

So, aging muscles? Yep! Here are some articles that can shed some light on how they differ from the muscles of young'uns:

50-year-old muscles just can’t grow big like they used to – the biology of how muscles change with age 

This is one of the best exercises you can do for your health if you’re over 50
(msn.com)

There are lots and lots of similar articles. Interest in staying young while growing old is strong, and what we know about doing that is growing as well. 

But, okay, back to the aging muscles and a couple of insights from the forthcoming book...

What does Grandma say about aging muscles? They need recovery time. Don't work out all body parts every day if you want to work out every day. Muscles, in Grandma's experience, take two days to recover for oldsters, compared to one day for youngsters. So, day 1 do upper body, day two lower body, day 3 abdominal muscles, and voila, all set to begin the cycle again, and all muscles have had the time they need to recover.

What did Brittany tell Grandma? It does not matter that you have not hit the gym in 50 years, your old Army-day muscles will kick in. Muscles have memory! [Says Grandma: I did not know that!]



For more posts about Grandma's Ninja Training Diary, click HERE.
(It started out as Grandma's Ninja Warrior Diary -- and then, reality came to visit.)




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