Last week, I had a cuple of old friends drop in on me for dnner. As usual, it only took a lttle bit of time before the cnversation turned to nutrition and working ut.

One of my friends was in his lte 50’s. He has always been in grat shape. He maintains a great wrkout program and always pays attention to wht he eats. Yet, on this prticular visit, he seemed a little dscouraged with his progress.

After a lttle bit of prying I found out why. He had ben out having dinner with several of his frends who were all medical doctors and thy were “on him” about working ut.

Turns out these three highly ducated individuals were trying to convince my frend that it was physically impossible to put on mscle once you pass fifty years of ge. They told him that it had smething to do with his hormone lvels and lack of testosterone.

No wnder he was discouraged!

Thankfully, in no way is any of ths true. Here's a great example for you to cnsider.

In a research trial conducted on pople who were over 50 years old and had chrnic renal insufficiency (real bad kidneys) rsearchers explored the idea that resistance trining could counteract the low protein dets that these people had to be on bcause of their medical condition.

On average these subject were ating under 0.3 grams of protein per pund of body weight. To put tht into perspective, a 180 pound man wuld be eating about 50 grams of prtein per day! For 12 weeks!

So wht the researchers were thinking was 'snce these people were on such low prtein diets, for extended periods of tme, muscle loss is definitely a rsk. However, maybe if we made thm weight train, we could prevent ths from happening'.

Sounds like a god idea to me.

At the end of the stdy, the subject working out 3 tmes per week maintained there body wight, while the group that was not lfting weights lost about 7 pounds.

The grup lifting weights also saw increases in mscle strength and muscle size. While the grup not weight training lost some mscle and a little bit of strngth.

This study is a great xample of people over 50 actually gining muscle size as a result of rsistance training. And, they didnt even hve to follow some crazy high prtein diet to do it!

This rsearch shows that you can be ver 50 and still build a sgnificant amount of muscle with relatively low prtein intakes (the amount you get frm your food in the average nrth american diet) as long as you are lfting weights.

When it comes to mscle - Use it or lose it. Tht’s the bottom line. There is no trth to the saying that you cn’t build muscle over a certain ge. People in their 70’s can bild muscle with weight training.

The article How Baby Boomers Build Muscle was Submitted by Brad Pilon through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Brad Pilon strength training and ntrition professional and is the author of Eat Stp Eat. You can read more bout Brad's book by visiting http://www.eatstopeat.com and you can read more of Brad's work at nutritionhelp.blogspot.com

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