Fountain of Youth Blog Confirmed

A while back i wrote a blog entitled, "The Real Fountain of Youth" , which explains why resistance training should be the primary training method for those starting an exercise or fitness program. Recently I have ran across a couple of articles that support the premise of that blog. 

The first, 

http://www.examiner.com/article/93-year-old-bodybuilder-defies-aging-a-walking-fountain-of-youth

Tells the story of an 87 year old who took up bodybuilding to improve his quality of life, the title looks familiar no? This is very similar to the title of my blog. My question to you, the rational reader, is this: Would he have gotten the same results if he decided to take up running, cycling or attempted to run a marathon? Would he look and feel as healthy and strong if he went the cardio route? 

The answer is hell no. The adjectives in the various articles about him: amazing, muscular, youthful and miraculous. I am here to tell you that they need not be miraculous or amazing if more people would follow his lead. If cardio-vascular training is your only form of exercise then you should immediately redesign your program to make resistance training primary.

Another article seems to have made just to validate my "Real Fountain of Youth" blog.

 http://www.examiner.com/article/health-and-fitness-experts-do-not-yet-understand-adult-exercise

Quotes for this article that support the blog and also the "Absurdity of Bench Press in Football" blog are numerous. Here are a few gems:

"Today's health and fitness experts do not understand adult exercise". Amen brother

""The short term effects of exercise are temporary. If doctors would trace the long term (permanent) effects on average adults who run, for their cardio exercise (10-30 minutes per session), they could watch skeletal damage accumulate, and sooner then later, if they continue, this damage is going to harm their skeletal health and fitness". HMM I said same in my blog!

"Because fitness experts have never differentiated between how hard any exercise method stresses the skeleton, compared to muscles, they are cutting years off of pro athlete careers. They are also keeping the vast majority of adults and seniors, who cannot push their skeletons 20 times harder than their muscles, from even knowing it is possible for them to do extreme muscle exertion exercises, that do not deeply stress their joints and spinal discs."   Slow controlled resistance training is the safest form of effective exercise there is...