Peter Attia· MD
and then like again even if they did fall if you have more muscle mass you're probably going to have more bone density as well these are all things that are going to help
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and then like again even if they did fall if you have more muscle mass you're probably going to have more bone density as well these are all things that are going to help
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what if they had the strength to catch themselves exactly the balance to catch themselves
the second point is your fall risk is going down dramatically because you're putting on muscle mass and to the very important point you made you're using these free weights and you're getting you're improving your balance so you have more muscle more balance more motor control your the the likelihood of falling to get in the position that you're going to break a bone is going down so much
Improvement in grip strength so there's another benefit because you can't deadlift without grip strength so if if a woman's picking 70 kilos off the ground think of how strong her hands are and think of the implication of that on mitigating fall risk you think about that person walking down a flight of stairs now imagine the grip they have on the handrail as they confidently walk down the steps
your fall risk is going down dramatically because you're putting on muscle mass and to the very important point you made you're using these free weights and you're getting you're improving your balance so you have more muscle more balance more motor control
but at the end of the day if you are increasing your muscle strength in your muscle mass you're definitely going to be reducing your your fall risk as well so yeah exactly I think it makes a little bit of sense if you really are focused on the quote unquote functional training to do you know maybe more stuff with free weights that moving natural move mov ments but like you said if you're getting stronger if it's on even if it's on a machine then you're getting stronger and that's going to help you within functional Independence and activities
it increases muscle mass muscle strength and Bone mineral density so fractures are a death sentence between 20 to 60% of Americans that that have a hip fracture die within a year and yet resistance training can lower fracture Risk by 30 to 40%