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To all the hardworking Mothers. May YOU be celebrated today! Happy Mother’s Day!! 💗🌺🌸

What a great article about our aging bodies and continuing to strength train and workout! “Our bodies aren’t made of glass, they’re meant to adapt.” Check it out! 💪🏋🏻‍♂️

One of the most damaging ideas in modern health and fitness isn’t that people should train harder.
It’s the belief that they should train less because their bodies are fragile.

Most bodies aren’t fragile by design. They become fragile when they’re under-used, over-protected, and never exposed to the challenges they evolved to handle. When we remove load, impact, and balance demands entirely, tissues don’t stay the same they adapt downward.

Muscle weakens.
Bone thins.
Tendons lose tolerance.
Confidence erodes.

This doesn’t mean everyone should push harder or ignore pain. It means we should train smarter applying the right amount of stress, at the right time, in the right way.

Protecting people from movement doesn’t preserve them.
It quietly limits them.

The goal of exercise especially as we age isn’t performance.
It’s capacity.
The ability to live independently, recover from setbacks, and engage fully with life.

Our bodies aren’t made of glass.
They’re made to adapt when we let them.

Dr. Mike played along! 😄