Brady Holmer

You know, they might help me build a little bit of strength, but definitely get that cognitive boost.

Muscle power, yeah.

We recently covered this in one of our newsletters, but researchers have kind of proposed this new term called powerpenia as like a nod to sarcopenia.

So powerpenia being the age-related loss of muscle power.

And so muscle power, as opposed to muscle strength and muscle mass, is your ability to generate force quickly.

So standing up out of a chair or lifting something heavy with a high velocity.

Those are all kind of examples of muscle power.

And why that's important is because, you know, like strength, obviously, but it's important for predicting your functional independence and essential for activities of daily living, essentially, you know, especially as you get older.

And so one of the ways to measure it is using just like a simple sit to stand test on a chair.

But like, how quickly can you do that?

So how quickly can you sit down and rise from a chair?

In the study that we covered, that's how they assessed muscle power and showed that it was correlated with actually longevity, which is pretty interesting.

So what's unique about muscle power is that it seems to decline earlier, start declining earlier, and then it declines more rapidly than muscle mass or muscle strength.

So obviously, you know, how much muscle you have and your strength, all of these things are kind of interrelated.

But muscle power seems to be a more sensitive indicator and maybe a more robust indicator of functional outcomes with age.

And so muscle power is just as important.

You can obviously train for it, as we'll talk about how to train for hypertrophy and strength.

Similar, you know, with resistance training, you need to resistance train to improve muscle power.

But yeah, this is another idea that

Hasn't been as necessarily well cited as the declines in muscle mass and strength, but it might actually decline to a greater degree than either.