Wednesday 10 April 2019

Osteoporosis ~ you guys need to start thinking about this

Guys, I am really worried about your bones.

My 50 year old friend, otherwise healthy, perfect weight, loves to walk, has had a bone scan revealing she has osteoporosis.

An acquaintance in her 70s stumbled, went over on her ankle and fractured her wrist so badly that her hand was basically only hanging on by skin and tendons.

Story after story of bad bones, people.

Osteoporosis# will impact your big stabilising bones meaning that the risk of falls and breaking a hip becomes very possible. You don't want a broken hip, especially if you are over 50. "One in three adults aged 50 and over dies within 12 months of suffering a hip fracture"^




Yes, there are very influential genetic components to this issue of bone thinning. However, much of it is life style choices.

We are sedentary
We avoid dairy because of various issues and intolerances
We don't think weight training is for us because it will make us too muscley and unfeminine
We don't do any high impact sport because our joints and tendons don't like it.

Unfortunately, despite your life style choices you've made, bones love and need the stimulation provided by weights and impact in order to stay healthy and strong.


These are not tasty baguettes. These are bones in various states of osteoporosis


So what can you do about it? 

Contact a physiotherapist, personal trainer or healthcare professional and ask them what drug free activities you can do to prevent osteoporosis. These are some suggestions:

* Lifting weights. You need to be shown what to do and how to do this safely.
* Impact training. Learning how to hop and bound safely to maximise the benefit to the bones and prevent knees and muscles getting damaged
* Stability training. Learning how to balance better. This will also do wonders for your gluteus muscles i.e. nice toned buttocks!
* Talk to a nutritionist about how you can increase you calcium intake.

If you need any help with questions you may have about the issue of osteoporosis, please contact me through ptkeyfitness@gmail.com.

So there you have it peeps. Get moving (but please don't go out and start deadlifting 50 kilos tomorrow! Start slowly and work up to the 50 kilos).

http://theconversation.com/why-hip-fractures-in-the-elderly-are-often-a-death-sentence-95784
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/chronic-musculoskeletal-conditions/osteoporosis/contents/what-is-osteoporosis

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