STRENGTH TRAINING IN YOUR 70s
ANCHOR POINTE, The Faith and Fitness Podcast
Faith, Diet, Exercise, Attitude, Positive Imagery, Music and Research




































TRANSCRIPT

Charlotte (00:00):
This is the XBHS Radio Network.
Skip Orem (00:03):Hi, everybody. From Nashville, I'm Skip Orem, and this is the Anchor Pointe Podcast. (00:16):
Hi everybody, and welcome to this mid-January episode of the Anchor Pointe Podcast. Anchor Pointe: your faith and fitness podcast, designed especially for us older folks in our 60s and 70s and beyond. And we use the seven elements of the Anchor Pointe disease fighting and fitness model to stay healthy, fight disease, and live long, healthy, and happy lives. Those seven elements, by the way: faith, diet, exercise, attitude, positive imagery, music, and research.
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I'm Skip Orem and I'm recording the podcast today at the XBHS Radio studios, here on Printers Alley in Nashville, Tennessee. The major focus of today's episode is strength training for us older folks. I titled the episode, "Strength Training in Your 70s", but we're really talking about folks in our 60s, 70s, and beyond even. We're talking about strength training today because it's so important for us older folks to build muscle strength. And then later in the podcast today, since we're still kind of early in January of 2023, I will be focusing on the need for all of us to let last year go. 2023 is your new beginning, everybody.
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Before we get started, I wanted to take a minute to thank all of you who wrote emails to me about last week's guided imagery session, "Guided Imagery to Fight the Winter Blues". So many of you wrote to tell me how much that episode helped you deal with the winter blues this January. Many of you have listened to it several times already. I'm so happy to hear that. And if you haven't listened to "Guided Imagery to Fight the Winter Blues", I want to let you know that it's available along with all of our Anchor Pointe episodes at the website, theanchorpointe.com. You can listen to it whenever you want. And don't forget, when you search on the web for the website, theanchorpointe.com, we spell Anchor Pointe with an E. The Anchor Pointe website address, T-H-E-A-N-C-H-O-R-P-O-I-N-T-E .com.
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This is the Anchor Pointe's medical news for seniors. The headline today is, if you didn't know this, our older bodies, they're constantly changing as we age, our metabolism is getting slower, we're getting a decrease in muscle mass and strength, an increase in body fat, our bone density is reducing, and we're getting stiffer joints. Really bad news today. Here is the good news, it is never too late to reap the benefits of exercise. And strength training can help us build muscle mass and limit or significantly reduce the problems caused by the lack of bone density as we age. According to the Mayo Clinic, strength training can reduce body fat, increase lean muscle mass, help you lose weight, help you burn more calories, protect your joints from injury, help your balance, and overall increase your quality of life. In our 60s and 70s and beyond everybody, strength training needs to be a part of our total fitness plan. And that everybody, is your Anchor Pointe medical news for seniors for today.
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Our regular listeners know that a key component of the Anchor Pointe disease fighting and fitness model is exercise. That exercise element though has two equal parts; heart rate training and strength training. Several of the upcoming Anchor Pointe episodes this year will focus on heart rate training, but on this week's episode, the focus is strength training. As we mentioned in our medical news for seniors

as we get older, our muscle mass decreases. And that decrease in muscle mass, it can cause us some serious health problems.