Exercise In Youth Makes For Stronger, Bigger Bones Through Life

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Warden the answer is “yes,” because of tests they conducted on retired major league baseball players. The retired players were in two groups. In one group the players had completely stopped throwing when their professional baseball careers ended, and in the other group, the retired players had continued to throw for another 20 years after the end of their professional careers. The results showed that continuing exercise during aging did not make bones bigger, but it did prevent loss of bone from the inside, as Prof. Warden notes: “The net result was the maintenance of even more of the strength benefit of exercise completed during go here now youth, with baseball players who continued to throw during aging maintaining over 50 percent of the bone strength benefit of exercise performed in youth.” He says the data suggests the idea of “use it or lose it” does not necessarily apply to the skeleton, and we should encourage exercise in youth, while bodies are still growing, as a way to promote bone health for life. Prof. Warden says children should exercise for at least an hour a day, and at least a third of that time should be devoted to weight-bearing exercise such as running, jumping rope, tennis, soccer, basketball, volleyball and hopscotch, where forces act on the skeleton from different directions. He adds that by continuing to exercise continue reading this.. into old age we hold onto much of the bone health gains we generated when we were younger.
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