The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson and is narrated by Tina

Lehman.

10 uncommon exercises for maintaining strength, agility, and power with age.

The older you get, the more important strength, agility, power, and lean mass become,

and the greater risk of their decline.

This isn't how most people approach old age.

They expect strength and all other trappings of physical capacity to degenerate, and so they do.

It's what happens all around us every day. Seniors are feeble, right?

The weight room is scary for a lot of people. Hell, even able-bodied youngsters in the prime of

their lives shy away from lifting heavy things. So first things first, seniors

should definitely strength train. If you're unsure of your form and capabilities, find a trainer

who works with older folks and ensure your safety. Just get out there. But it's not the only way

if, for whatever reason, you can't or won't do traditional strength

training or you just want to diversify your training arsenal, I've come up with several

uncommon exercises and activities to help you stay strong, agile, fit, and powerful as you age.

Let's go. Number one, taking the stairs.

Stair climbing performance is a powerful predictor of resilience in the elderly, how well they bounce back from health incidents.

In older adults undergoing abdominal surgery, stair climbing performance is the single best predictor

of perioperative complications.

Same goes for postoperative cardiopulmonary complications,

complications following lung cancer surgery, and many others. Unlike some other more isolated

performance tests used to indicate health or mortality risk, like walking speed or hand grip strength,

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