Exercise & Osteoporosis

What is osteoporosis?

We often hear about elderly people falling and breaking a hip, an injury which often turns out to be fatal. It is often assumed that these breaks are a result of having fallen. In a large number of cases, the opposite is true: they suffer a fall because their hip breaks. Each year, an average of 80,000 men suffer a hip fracture and one-third of these men die within a year.

The cause: osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis, or porous bone, is a disease characterized by low bone mass and structural deterioration of bone tissue, leading to bone fragility and an increased susceptibility to fractures of the hip, spine, and wrist. In the U.S. today, over 10 million individuals already have osteoporosis and 18 million more have low bone mass, placing them at increased risk for this disease. What can be done about it?

Exercise. What kind of exercise? Low-force, high-intensity strength training is one of the safest and most productive means of effectively addressing this disease along with reducing acidic waste through proper pH balance. (when we have to much acidic waste, our bodies 'steal' the highly alkaline calcium from our bones to help keep our blood and cells more alkaline).

What kind of exercise helps our bones?

Some studies have shown increases in bone density as high as 1% per week with strength training exercise. The SuperSlow exercise protocol was developed by Ken Hutchins as a result of his need to provide a safe method of high intensity training for the elderly women whos training he supervised during the Nautilus funded Osteoporosis Study at the University of Florida (1982-1986).

Keep in mind that by "exercise" we mean strength training. Many of the activities that have been recommended as exercise by so-called "experts" in this field will do little or nothing to help anyone, and in some cases may even cause serious harm. Jogging, dance aerobics, and other high-force, high-impact steady-state activities are examples of this. Although good for the heart, these impact arobic exercises have also caused an epidemic of joint and spine injury."

Are you making exercise a priority?

Many of us make excuses for not exercising. It can seem like too big of a commitment of our time, money or both. The amount of training time necessary to dramatically improve your physical condition is far less than you have been led to believe; at the most an hour to an hour and a half per week, (20-30 minutes three days a week) and in many cases considerably less. Many low-impact, weight bearing exercises done to increase muscle mass and protect bone density can be done at home with very little time or expense. Are your bones worth 60-90 minutes a week?

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