Strength loss starts as early as age 30. When you gradually lose muscle mass, it’s replaced by fat. Plus, your metabolism slows down (5% per decade) and your cardiovascular endurance wanes.
The official name of this muscle shrinkage issarcopenia.After age 60, it can reduce your mobility to make walking or getting out of a chair difficult.
So, the time to avoid the fate of your father or grandfather is now, after 40. Take it fromMilo F. Bryant, 52-year-old fitness trainer and authorof our bookUnstoppable After 40.