Strength Training for Seniors: Increase your Balance, Stability, and Stamina to Rewind the Aging Process

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What would you do to gain access to the Fountain of Youth? People have been searching for this mythical artifact for centuries. There have been stories of healing rivers going back to the fourth century BCE, the most notable being the legend that the Spanish explorer Ponce de León was actually searching for the Fountain of Youth when he landed in Florida in 1513.

Historians now assert that this was not the real reason for his travels, but through the years many people have believed in the restorative power of “magical” waters.

These days, we know the real Fountain of Youth doesn’t exist (at least we think so), but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a way to increase longevity as well as the quality of life as we age.

In fact, there is a way to reverse the aging process all the way down to the cellular level: strength training.

We can’t stop the aging process, which is determined by our genes, but there are other factors that affect how we age such as nutrition, stress, smoking, and exercise.

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