Resistance training helps slow ageing
Andrew Dunne demonstrates resistance training exercises. / Courtesy of Andrew Dunne By Andrew Dunne When I began writing this article, it was a Thursday night. For many of my friends and peers, that means trivia night at one of the popular expat bars in downtown Gwangju, where I've lived for several years. In light of that, I'm going to begin this article with a little trivia: You have hundreds of these. You use them every day. You're using them right now to read this article. Without these, you couldn't even blink or breathe, let alone perform basic daily functions like getting out of bed, brushing your teeth, talking, walking, or picking up things. What am I referring to?A tip of my Irish cap to those of you that said muscles (bonus points if you also named the three types of muscle: smooth, cardiac, and skeletal).When people think about muscles, they tend to think about the skeletal muscles. And, for good reason. They are the muscles that we can control. Examples include our arms, legs, shoulders, and back. Our arms will not bend, for instance, unless we want t
Jun 28, 2015
