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Originally Posted by TheLegacy
at my age not a great deal outside of playing with my kids and lifting them up and doing household maintenance. I'm more focused on keeping healthy for my remaining years and I don't think muscle growth has anything much to do with that
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Muscles has to do with everything...without muscle you wouldn't be able to move, so muscles definitely help with longetivity, up to a certain point, of course and not getting them with the help of hormones or drugs. If you have any kind of pain in the older years, its because of lack of resistance training and a healthy way of life in general(food, sleep, etc).
And as far as training strategies...the same things that worked 50 years ago, still work today. Just most people today take some kind of drugs(hormones, test, etc), even teenagers, but you won't see those in the gym in their 30s or 40s anymore.