Dr. Layne Norton

But basically we're talking about people who had trouble like kind of standing up, you know, and they started their progressive overload was they started them sitting down to a high chair and doing reps with that.

After I think it was 12 or 16 weeks, I can't recall the specific details of the study.

They saw significant increases in lean mass, cross-sectional area, muscle quality.

You know, it's imaged by an MRI.

They got so much more functional.

Some of them were able to squat down to like a chair like this and stand up or even lower.

And so I think resistance training has gotten this bad rap because a lot of people view it as this like really aesthetic, narcissistic thing because of bodybuilding.

And yes, there is that component to it.

But like your body is so made to move against stuff that –

If you don't do that, you are drastically accelerating your aging and your cognitive decline as well.

It is pretty scary to see how quickly

And just look at the research on people over age 65.

If they fall and break something and go to the hospital, there's – I don't know the exact statistic but I think it's better than a 50 percent chance that they're dead within a year.

Like it's a pretty scary statistic.

Yeah.

So the two are interrelated.

All things being equal, if you have more contractile tissue, you'll be stronger, right?

But strength is not just muscle mass.

It's also neural drive.

It is how many fibers can your motor nuance recruit?