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JJ Virgin

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Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

But when you really look at what happens as we age, and again, I'm really unpacking right now how much this is aging and how much of this is the habits that we get into as we age. And I'm starting to think it's a lot more of our behaviors now. than actual physiological aging. And so we lose muscle, but that isn't really what's scary here.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

But when you really look at what happens as we age, and again, I'm really unpacking right now how much this is aging and how much of this is the habits that we get into as we age. And I'm starting to think it's a lot more of our behaviors now. than actual physiological aging. And so we lose muscle, but that isn't really what's scary here.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

And as you start to unpack it with muscle, we have two different types of skeletal muscle. We have slow twitch, and those are all the things like right now we're sitting up, our slow twitch muscle fibers are keeping us upright. If we're walking, if we're standing, those are all our slow twitch muscle fibers.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

And as you start to unpack it with muscle, we have two different types of skeletal muscle. We have slow twitch, and those are all the things like right now we're sitting up, our slow twitch muscle fibers are keeping us upright. If we're walking, if we're standing, those are all our slow twitch muscle fibers.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

And as you start to unpack it with muscle, we have two different types of skeletal muscle. We have slow twitch, and those are all the things like right now we're sitting up, our slow twitch muscle fibers are keeping us upright. If we're walking, if we're standing, those are all our slow twitch muscle fibers.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

fast twitch muscle fibers and they can they can get bigger but the ones that really tend to do more of the hypertrophy are the fast twitch muscle fibers. So as I started to look at this I went it must be that we're losing more fast twitch as we age which is clear.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

fast twitch muscle fibers and they can they can get bigger but the ones that really tend to do more of the hypertrophy are the fast twitch muscle fibers. So as I started to look at this I went it must be that we're losing more fast twitch as we age which is clear.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

fast twitch muscle fibers and they can they can get bigger but the ones that really tend to do more of the hypertrophy are the fast twitch muscle fibers. So as I started to look at this I went it must be that we're losing more fast twitch as we age which is clear.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

As we age while we're losing muscle what we're really losing is two to three times more strength but what the biggest thing we're losing is power. So muscle hypertrophy is your muscle size and you want to think of that but you also want to think of quality. Like having a big muscle doesn't necessarily mean you're strong.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

As we age while we're losing muscle what we're really losing is two to three times more strength but what the biggest thing we're losing is power. So muscle hypertrophy is your muscle size and you want to think of that but you also want to think of quality. Like having a big muscle doesn't necessarily mean you're strong.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

As we age while we're losing muscle what we're really losing is two to three times more strength but what the biggest thing we're losing is power. So muscle hypertrophy is your muscle size and you want to think of that but you also want to think of quality. Like having a big muscle doesn't necessarily mean you're strong.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

A lot of those guys over there at Gold's Gym weren't that strong, they just knew how to build muscle. Strength is how much you can move something one time and it turns out to build strength it's a little different than how you actually build muscle. There's crossover but they're not the same.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

A lot of those guys over there at Gold's Gym weren't that strong, they just knew how to build muscle. Strength is how much you can move something one time and it turns out to build strength it's a little different than how you actually build muscle. There's crossover but they're not the same.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

A lot of those guys over there at Gold's Gym weren't that strong, they just knew how to build muscle. Strength is how much you can move something one time and it turns out to build strength it's a little different than how you actually build muscle. There's crossover but they're not the same.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

Power is how fast you can do something and I think when we think of power we also have to think of agility because As we age, it's that ability to catch ourselves, you know, move quickly, run up the stairs. That's what we lose. But again, we don't have to.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

Power is how fast you can do something and I think when we think of power we also have to think of agility because As we age, it's that ability to catch ourselves, you know, move quickly, run up the stairs. That's what we lose. But again, we don't have to.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

Power is how fast you can do something and I think when we think of power we also have to think of agility because As we age, it's that ability to catch ourselves, you know, move quickly, run up the stairs. That's what we lose. But again, we don't have to.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

But I think we start to look at it and you look at the, you know, adult exercise classes and they are standing there with the chair and doing chair exercises. And I think, you know, that's not going to help us in life, sitting, doing our exercises in a chair, because in life we have to get out of the chair. And so, yes, your knees might hurt, your back might hurt.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

But I think we start to look at it and you look at the, you know, adult exercise classes and they are standing there with the chair and doing chair exercises. And I think, you know, that's not going to help us in life, sitting, doing our exercises in a chair, because in life we have to get out of the chair. And so, yes, your knees might hurt, your back might hurt.

Dhru Purohit Show
Don't Let The Scale Run Your Life: The Power of Focusing on Body Composition

But I think we start to look at it and you look at the, you know, adult exercise classes and they are standing there with the chair and doing chair exercises. And I think, you know, that's not going to help us in life, sitting, doing our exercises in a chair, because in life we have to get out of the chair. And so, yes, your knees might hurt, your back might hurt.