I used to think 40 was old.
I remember the day my dad turned 40.
I thought – because really, I no idea of a sense of time – that he was going to die of old age soon.
I remember it made me sad when he told me that he was 40 – it was in the kitchen or our tiny suburban home. I was 10 years old at the time.
My dad was my hero… still is even now that he’s 72.
As I write this, I’m 43 years old… and I realize how wrong I was.
Especially now where it’s common to see people thrive well into their 90s.

But I think, nowadays especially, that we have to ask the question…
Even though we’re all aging (that number is only going to go up)… Do we have to “get old”?
Can we have a great quality of life and not be dependent on things like…
- medication & pills
- physical aids like canes, wheel chairs or oxygen machines
- even other people like nurses or caregivers or our family members
I don’t know about you, but my goal as a father of 5 is to be independent well into my old age.
I don’t want to be a burden on my kids.
So I’m doing everything I can NOW to stall and even REVERSE the aging process.
In the end, there’s little we can do to prevent getting old… BUT we can do things in our life to delay “getting OLD”.
FACT: After the age of 30, we start to lose muscle at an exponential rate.
The average sedentary adult will lose 3-5% of lean mass per decade after the age of 30.(1)
This process of losing muscle due to aging is called SARCOPENIA.
SARCOPENIA is a condition characterized by loss of skeletal muscle mass and function. Sarcopenia is a syndrome characterized by progressive and generalized loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength and it is strictly correlated with physical disability, poor quality of life and death.(2)
If you’re already active – which I’m guessing you are if you’re reading this – then you’re on the right track.