Newsletter 3 - 2009
A REVOLUTIONARY STUDY
We would like to share with you a study that can only be described as ”revolutionary” in its impact in regard to strength training and senior citizens. As unlikely as this may sound it revealed that strength training can actually reverse the aging process.
For the study, the results of which were published in the online medical journal Public Library of Science, researchers recruited twenty-five healthy seniors (average age seventy) and an equal number of college students (average age twenty-six). All of the subjects submitted to having muscle biopsies performed, and 24,000 genes were compared for each participant. It was noted that 600 genes were markedly different between the older and younger subjects.
Prior to the study, the senior and younger groups were found to have similar activity levels, though the young people, as one might expect, were considerably stronger than their older counterparts. The seniors then took part in a strength-training program for six months. Afterward, the researchers found that the seniors had gone from being 59 percent weaker the young adults to being only 38 percent weaker. More important was the change in the seniors’ genes. The gene expression profile (or genetic fingerprint) of the seniors changed noticeably, looking a lot more like that of the younger trainees. The researchers concluded their study by stating:
Following exercise training the transcriptional signature of aging was markedly reversed back to that of younger levels for most genes that were affected by both age and exercise. We conclude that healthy older adults show evidence of mitochondrial impairment and muscle weakness, but that this can be partially reversed at the phenotypic level, and substantially reversed at the transcriptome level, following six month of resistance exercise training.
Nothing else in human history has shown a functional reversing of age in humans at a molecular level. It is astounding that genes that were functioning poorly at an elderly level could be returned to a normal level of functioning in elderly people.
But it’s not surprising to us, nor to anyone who performs the type of training that we advocate. It’s not unusual to see an elderly person start working with minimal weights and then, in a short span of time, see the person’s strength be equal to or greater than that of the average twenty-five-year-old. We have seventy-five and eighty-year-old clients training at our facilities, and routinely when we bring in a new twenty-five-year-old client, the weights at which we start the young adult do not approach what most of our older established clients are currently using.
That news of this magnitude should come out during our lifetimes and not to be the front page of every newspaper and on every evening news program was inexplicable to us.
However, the beautiful thing is that the ones who understand and apply the principles of Concept 10 10 are the ones with whom we get to work---- and the ones who are reaping all the benefits.
REFER A NEW MEMBER AND GET A FREE SESSION
If you refer a new member to Concept 10 10, you will receive an extra session as a token of our appreciation.
It works this way: When the new member comes in for the start session, he or she should inform the instructor the name of the member who did the referral. We will then ad an extra training session to your file.
You can refer an unlimited number of new members and get a free session for each. Just remember that we have to be informed when the member comes in for the first time, otherwise it will be too late.
EXPANSION:
Abu Dhabi is now open
See the website for more information.
We now have 17 locations in 5 different countries with many more to come.
A lot of the new Concept 10 10 facilities are franchises.
If you are interested to know more about what it takes to become a franchisee here or abroad, you are welcome to contact us.
INPUT, SUGGESTIONS .:
If you have any input, suggestions, complaints etc. please feel free to e-mail directly to the reception office of Concept 10 10 in DHCC at dubai@concept1010.ae