If you needed yet another reason to keep your arm day and leg day on the calendar, “living longer” may be it.
Researchers studied a group of 839 men and women over the age of 65 for about four years, recording their body composition with bone density scanning over time. They looked at “appendicular muscle mass,” meaning the arms and legs, as well as subcutaneous fat and visceral fat., found that women with low appendicular mass were 63 times more likely to die early compared to those with more arm and leg muscle mass.
“Muscle mass plays a key role in stabilization, for the hips and shoulders,” Pereira says. “When you lose that stability and there’s a fall, low bone mineral density means you’re at higher risk of a fracture. And we know from past research that an injury like a broken hip can significantly increase early mortality risk.”IronStrength WorkoutStudy participants who had died during the research timeframe did have some factors in common besides low appendicular mass, she added.
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