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Klefbeck, B., Lagerstrand, L., & Mattsson, E. (January 01, 2000). Inspiratory muscle training in patients with prior polio who use part-time assisted ventilation. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 81,
In polio patients they still have some muscles that can be recovered. It is part of “collateral re-innervation”. Some of the muscle motors in the body with post polio undergo surgery to cut off some nerves. Some patients have discovered over fifteen to thirty years that they have some new symptoms that cause them pain or post polio muscle dysfunction.
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Maddox, George L. The Encyclopedia of Aging: a Comprehensive Resource in Gerontology and Geriatrics. New York: Springer Pub., 1995. Print.
Working out as you age might be difficult, but there is no reason you should not. When you workout your heart pumps twice as hard, the blood circulation in the body needs to work correctly so that you can get blood flow through out all your muscles that you are exercising. “Heart rate typically doubles, while stroke volume may increase 15% during upright exercise” (350). Even though exercising you may thing it might raise your blood pressure, it does not. If anything it just goes up just a tiny bit. It is a good that you can workout and exercise without worrying about your blood pressure. Just do not freak out when working out and your pulse goes up. Make if you are coming out for the first time you might want to talk it easy. Especially, if you are recovering from an illness or surgery working out for the first time can be something hard on your body and you just need to watch out off.
Westcott, Wayne L., and Thomas R. Baechle. Strength Training past 50: For Fitness and Performance through the Years. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1998. Print.
In this book it talks about how you are never too old to exercises. Westcott talks about how exercises help with the body. He also mentions how straight training is not just for bodybuilders; they are for everyone to do. He talked about his father as well. When his father was in his 80’s he added about 12 pounds of muscle when doing exercises (4).
When Westcott and Baechle did a studies on muscle for people over the age of 50, they found that “men averaged 3.7 more muscle and women averaged 1.7 more muscle” on their body (4). There were 1,132 participants that were in this study. They worked out for 30 minutes a day for about 2-3 days a week.
Even though men are stronger than women, in strength we both grow the same amount of muscle. Men are fifty percent stronger “typically larger, have more muscle mass than women”(11). It does not mean that women are weaker; it just means that men have more and bigger muscle than women do. Training is hard, but women can achieve about the same amount of strength as men do in strength training.
When talking about doing weights on your own it shows that you can do a lot, but doing too much weights or something like bench press you need a spotter. A spotter can do a lot. When getting too tired or just need a break and you cannot put back up the bar so that you can rest, you can get seriously injured. Something like having the bar drop on your chest can hurt you in serious way. You could end up in the hospital, because your lungs could get smashed or collapse and you would need them to get it pumped to get reopened the lungs.
