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2. 8 Tips for Boosting Muscle Growth After 50, According to a ...

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   ShutterstockAs you grow into your 30s, 40s, 50s, and beyond, you naturally lose lean muscle mass and function, along with bone density. However, you can turn back your body's clock by engaging in ...

3. A 70-year-old lost 70 pounds and got into weightlifting. She ...

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   The 70-year-old, who stood at 5-foot-3, weighed 200 pounds after years of mindless snacking and was on blood-pressure medication. MacDonald told Business Insider she bowled and played darts and ...

4. This Bodyweight Workout Plan Will Tone Your Whole Body In ...

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   The Workouts. Equipment: none. Time: 20 minutes or less. Instructions: Do each week's Women’s Health+ workout 3 times per week, alternating each one with a day of cardio. Perform 3 sets of each ...

5. Strength training - Wikipedia

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   Strength training, also known as weight training or resistance training, involves the performance of physical exercises that are designed to improve strength and endurance. It is often associated with the lifting of weights. It can also incorporate a variety of training techniques such as bodyweight exercises, isometrics, and plyometrics.

6. Muscle tone - Wikipedia

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   Muscle tone. In physiology, medicine, and anatomy, muscle tone (residual muscle tension or tonus) is the continuous and passive partial contraction of the muscles, or the muscle's resistance to passive stretch during resting state. [1][2] It helps to maintain posture and declines during REM sleep. [3] Muscle tone is regulated by the activity of ...

7. Basal metabolic rate - Wikipedia

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   Basal metabolic rate is the amount of energy per unit of time that a person needs to keep the body functioning at rest. Some of those processes are breathing, blood circulation, controlling body temperature, cell growth, brain and nerve function, and contraction of muscles. Basal metabolic rate affects the rate that a person burns calories and ...