Can anyone tell me how and why muscle fibres develop from the age of 30 onwards and how we can utilise are training to incorperate this?
Stuff I’ve read says muscle fibers develop the same way throughout your whole life. 70 year olds develop new muscle the same way 18 year olds do. What’s different is the hormonal environment. This can be manipulated quite a bit through diet.
Much of the limitation for older folks like me (45), is the amount of carbohydrates we take in, which in the typical American diet is way too high. This causes way too much insulin to be produced and causes insulin insensitivity and inflammation in the body and lowers recovery ability, stresses the body and causes hormonal disfunction.
A lot of good info on this can be found at www.arthurdevaney.com.
Eat right (veggies, fruits and meats and minimal processed/refined grains from clean sources), sleep right, exercise enough and you will develop muscle.
My $.02, anyway.
[quote]urey.chris wrote:
Can anyone tell me how and why muscle fibres develop from the age of 30 onwards and how we can utilise are training to incorperate this? [/quote]
I can’t remember that last time I read a training article here that wasn’t science based in some way. Everything you want to know about exercise physiology is literally at your fingertips if you put even the slightest effort into finding it.
Skidmark nailed it. Age itself is not directly related to muscle development. 90 year olds who hit the weights gain muscle.