Slow Metabolic process vs a quicker Metabolism with Age …
As pointed out in the previous write-up on this topic, hormone levels do diminish from around twenty-five onwards, however this condition can in fact be fully balanced out by a healthful way of life along with intelligent exercise and some smart nutritional supplementing!
When folks point out that it’s normal to get fat about forty then that’s a fallacy or even simply just an alibi.
Being overweight at 40 is a really just the result of nearly two decades or more of eating too much and not enough exercising.
That’s the long and short of it.
So it’s no age-related problem or illness, but just the piling up of fat with time.
And also the shrinking of muscles due to sheer absence of use …
Muscular Mass Burns identical amounts of Calories Pound for Pound, no matter how old!
Apparently the common male gains approximately one pound of body fat annually from the age of 35 to the age of sixty …
But exactly how come?
Research shows that regardless of age, the daily nutrient requirements (energy burned up) per every pound of muscular mass will always be precisely the same. Therefore whether twenty-five or fifty-five, you have the same calories:lean-mass ratio.
In English this means that 50 lbs of muscle mass use the same energy/calories per day in a teenager as they do in a baby-boomer.
Only concern is that folks tend to lose muscle tissue as time passes
… and hence burn up less energy on a daily basis!
So all that suggests is if you sustain lean mass –your muscles- the metabolism will not decrease whatsoever.
And when you train frequently, and maybe even increase strength and muscle size for a little bit, you might actually speed it up as you grow older!
Take Care Of Your Muscle to help maintain Your Metabolism, And Even Speed It Up With Regular Planned Activity!
Here‘s a „secret“, if you want: sustaining strength and hypertrophy levels (muscular mass) is actually super easy.
A good example: my players do one brief exercise routine each week when they‘re in-season, at times less. And that‘s adequate!
At the least to maintain, read: remain at the same levels. If you want to build up, a tad bit more is needed, but still the good thing is that once you‘re there, you can preserve everything you got with ease!
So while build up might take, say, three trainings a week, one short workout session is sufficient for maintenance.
And also this provides us with 1 good example on why working out is suggested, even though not necessary to shed weight.
Because you can burn off all of the body fat you want without moving so much as the little finger, simply by nutritional adjustment only.
And correct nutrition is key to weight loss, that’s for certain.
But the right training will quicken things considerably, shape you up beautifully both in the health- and looks-department, and make sure that metabolic rate keeps a-humming along all just right.
Long story short: Slow Metabolism or Fast Metabolism, it’s really up to you, however young or old.
Mark
