How Your Exercise as a Teenager Impacts Your Longevity

InsideHook: How Your Exercise as a Teenager Impacts Your Longevity.

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That sucks since I was a skinny non athletic teen :frowning:

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The critical issue here I think is contained in the following:

Even in walk-happy Japan, exercise rates tend to decline with age. But “inculcating” an exercise habit in adolescence (to borrow a phrase from Tamura) increases the chance that one will keep moving into their middle-age and retirement years.

As long as one is relatively healthy/functional and willing to make exercise into a routine that persists throughout the remainder of life, I would argue that sarcopenia can be readily avoided.

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