Living Longer Stronger

What you can expect
As we age, our body goes through changes that effect the quality and eventual length of our life.  Researchers call these changes BioMarkers of aging.  While many people simply write these changes off as inevitable consequences of aging, we have found that ten biomarkers of aging can actually be reversed with proper exercise and nutrition.  The Living Longer Stronger program is designed to maximize functional strength and muscle mass, increase bone density, reduce body fat, optimize cardiovascular health, decrease inflammation, improve glucose control and insulin sensitivity, and reduce arthritis and chronic back pain. 

Some of the BioMarkers of Aging we will be addressing in the program include:

• Muscle Mass - As we age, we tend to lose muscle mass.  In fact, if left unchecked, we lose on average a half pound of metabolically active muscle every year past the age of 30.
• Strength - Along with the loss of critical muscle mass, as we age we lose function strength.  Functional strength affects everything we do from work to play.  Most importantly, if we lose too much functional strength, we lose our ability to be independent.
• Basal Metabolic Rate - With the loss of muscle, comes the loss of metabolic rate.  The more muscle we have, the more calories we burn per minute, per hour and per day.  The higher the metabolic rate, the more calories we can eat without gaining weight, and the more carbs we can ingest without driving up insulin.
• Bodyfat - As our muscle mass declines, so does our metabolic rate.  As our metabolic rate declines below our usual calorie intake level, our bodies have no choice but to store the extra calories as fat.
• Aerobic Capacity - With the lack of regular challenging physical activity comes a down-regulation of the aerobic enzymes needed to perform sustained aerobic activity.
• Blood Sugar Tolerance - Active muscle tissue serves to break down glycogen stores and draw sugar into the cells to be metabolized.  If we become less active as we age, our muscles atrophy and our glycogen levels top off.  This results in sugar backing up in the blood stream which triggers the excess release of insulin and eventual insulin insensitivity.   This is the beginning of Diabetes.
• Cardiovascular Health - The heart weakens with age and the network of arteries that circulate blood can accumulate deposits that choke off the flow of blood.
• Bone Density - Our bones are constantly in a state of remodeling.  Osteoclasts breakdown old bone and Osteoblasts grow new.   If the bones have insufficient building materials or insufficient exposure to tension, they will rebuild thinner and weaker.
• Thermoregulation - As we become less active and lose muscle, our ability to regulate body temperature at optimum levels becomes.
• Endorcrine function - The body's system of glands, which secrete helpful chemicals into the blood, becomes less efficient with time, inactivity and poor nutrition.
• The Immune System - The natural system of defenses mounted by the body to combat foreign organisms like viruses, bacteria and parasites begins to let down its guard as we grow old.
• Brain Function - Many changes occur in brain cells and function over time.  Depression, Anxiety and memory impairment can all be improved through this program.
• Oxidative stress - Life-giving oxygen, paradoxically, can be bad for health. Oxygen sometimes manifests itself as free radicals, toxic ionized oxygen molecules that roam cells disrupting other molecules in a cascade of cellular events that may be at the very root of the aging process.

The Living Longer Stronger program from Final Results Fitness is the closest thing we have found to discovering the fountain of youth.  In just six weeks, you can turn back the physiological hands of time and return to the health and fitness levels you enjoyed in 20 years ago or more.