Prevent shrinking with age

[Kung Fu Wang105]

To prevent height loss as you age, focus on maintaining a healthy diet, engaging in regular weight-bearing exercises, and avoiding unhealthy habits like smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.

Some MA systems don't work on weight. But you truly don't have any choice not to work on weight.

What's your opinion on this?

 

[Kung Fu Wang105]

Today when I walk on the beach, I did "belt cracking" 800 times during my 4 miles walking. I feel my muscles get more firm and feel good. I strongly recommend people to do this for "health" if not for combat.

 

[Same Trick50]

To prevent height loss as you age, focus on maintaining a healthy diet, engaging in regular weight-bearing exercises, and avoiding unhealthy habits like smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.

Some MA systems don't work on weight. But you truly don't have any choice not to work on weight.

What's your opinion on this?

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Looks as a skirt trick

 

[Kung Fu Wang105]

Looks as a skirt trick

 

[Same Trick50]

Today when I walk on the beach, I did "belt cracking" 800 times during my 4 miles walking. I feel my muscles get more firm and feel good. I strongly recommend people to do this for "health" if not for combat.

Yesterday I moved a lot of boxes(moving to a new house) this morning my arms felt and looked like the hulk(not green) just as when I was young doing weightlifting, I praise my TJQ and similar exercises for many years now for still having the ability of hulk arms

 

[Kung Fu Wang105]

Yesterday I moved a lot of boxes(moving to a new house) this morning my arms felt and looked like the hulk(not green) youst as when I was young doing weightlifting, I praise my TJQ and similar exercises for many years now for still having the ability of hulk arms

It's difficult to carry weight outdoor. I try to carry my 12 lb dumbbell when I walk 4 miles, it gets very difficult toward the end. But to carry a Karate belt is easy. When I crack my belt, I'm working on my muscle. IMO, it's the best way to develop muscle when I'm not at home.

 

[Same Trick50]

TJQ and similar exercises should prevent crooked back and shrink since a main important in the exercise is strech in all directions

 

[Kung Fu Wang105]

TJQ and similar exercises should prevent crooked back and shrink since a main important in the exercise is strech in all directions

IMO, the main reason that body shrinking is because the muscle lost strength. Can muscle become strong by stretching only without weight training? You can make your leg muscle strong by using your body weight. You can't make your arm muscle or chest muscle strong unless you do push up.

To prevent "crooked back" , you need to bend your body backward. By keeping your body vertical is not enough. If you want to make a bending object straight, you have to bend it into the opposite direction.

Chest belt can also prevent crooked back.

 

[Prince_Alarming105]

The other practice that I think would be helpful is just hanging in a dead hang from a pullup bar. It's very healthy if you also do a lot of squatting or deadlifting. Good for your grip too. It works best as a partner exercise where you both try to hold on until your grip gives out and you fall naturally from the bar, to see who can hold on the longest.

 

[punisher733]

The fancy medical term is "sarcopenia". It can be slowed down and even reversed in some cases by regular exercise and a healthy diet. The old adage "use it or lose it" is VERY true in this case.

Strength training is one of the biggest things to help slow this process down.

 

[Xue Sheng99]

The fancy medical term is "sarcopenia". It can be slowed down and even reversed in some cases by regular exercise and a healthy diet. The old adage "use it or lose it" is VERY true in this case.

Strength training is one of the biggest things to help slow this process down.

Yup, and exercise cardio and strength training are great ways to slow down loss of height, and muscle loss (sarcopenia) , but in most cases you can’t stop it.

 

[punisher733]

Yup, and exercise cardio and strength training are great ways to slow down loss of height, and muscle loss (sarcopenia) , but in most cases you can’t stop it.

Agreed. We can slow it, but in most cases, not stop it.

In my opinion, it is why it is so important to build muscle and have a good foundation when we are younger. If we have more muscle mass, the loss of the muscle isn't as significant to our performance of basic things.

 

[HighKick]

To prevent height loss as you age, focus on maintaining a healthy diet, engaging in regular weight-bearing exercises, and avoiding unhealthy habits like smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.

Some MA systems don't work on weight. But you truly don't have any choice not to work on weight.

What's your opinion on this?

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If you consider every joint from heel to shoulders, and estimate 1/8" to 1/4" for cartilage loss and bone wear, it is pretty to get to 2". But what the photo infers to me is osteoporosis which is a completely different thing.
And a rather misleading photo considering ever skirt is longer.

 

[windwalker099105]

People live much longer now.
A hundred years ago, average life expectancy hovered around 55… many never lived long enough for height loss or joint degeneration to even appear.

Today the body is asked to carry us through 70, 80, even 90 years.
Maintaining bone density matters — but so does how the body is loaded.

Some methods nourish the structure.
Others slowly wear it down.

Combative training — training meant for fighting — never designed with health in mind.
Its purpose is survival, not longevity.
Any health benefit is incidental; the wear and tear come with the path.

When that kind of training becomes the main focus — as it often does when people approach Taiji only as a health art — the original functionality is easy to lose.

A little long in the tooth myself, I sometimes look back at the things I trained when I was young — all the things I pushed through in the name of martial skill. Often wonder if some of what I’m feeling now began there.

 

[Kung Fu Wang105]

Even Arnold Schwarzenegger lost muscle at 70.

 

[punisher733]

People live much longer now.
A hundred years ago, average life expectancy hovered around 55… many never lived long enough for height loss or joint degeneration to even appear.

Today the body is asked to carry us through 70, 80, even 90 years.
Maintaining bone density matters — but so does how the body is loaded.

Some methods nourish the structure.
Others slowly wear it down.

Combative training — training meant for fighting — never designed with health in mind.
Its purpose is survival, not longevity.
Any health benefit is incidental; the wear and tear come with the path.

When that kind of training becomes the main focus — as it often does when people approach Taiji only as a health art — the original functionality is easy to lose.

A little long in the tooth myself, I sometimes look back at the things I trained when I was young — all the things I pushed through in the name of martial skill. Often wonder if some of what I’m feeling now began there.

I remember an older Okinawan karate master (his name escapes me at the moment) say, that "the ultimate self-defense is to outlive your enemies".

 

[Kung Fu Wang105]

I remember an older Okinawan karate master (his name escapes me at the moment) say, that "the ultimate self-defense is to outlive your enemies".

I promise my 9 years younger wife that I'll outlive her. If you really love your wife, you should outlive her. This way you will suffer from her death, and she doesn't have to suffer from your death.

 

[HighKick]

I remember an older Okinawan karate master (his name escapes me at the moment) say, that "the ultimate self-defense is to outlive your enemies".

You wife is your enemy?

 

[Prince_Alarming105]

Even Arnold Schwarzenegger lost muscle at 70.

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Height is losing Chuck Norris as he continues not to age though

 

[punisher733]

You wife is your enemy?

In this case, I am blessed beyond words with my wife.