Flutterby™! : You can still build muscle

It's never too late to start exercising, new study shows

"Our study clearly shows that it doesn't matter if you haven't been a regular exerciser throughout your life, you can still derive benefit from exercise whenever you start," says lead researcher, Dr Leigh Breen. "Obviously a long term commitment to good health and exercise is the best approach to achieve whole-body health, but even starting later on in life will help delay age-related frailty and muscle weakness.

Frontiers in Physiology: Comparable Rates of Integrated Myofibrillar Protein Synthesis Between Endurance-Trained Master Athletes and Untrained Older Individuals

Conclusion: While our sample size is limited, these data suggest that rested-state and RE-induced iMyoPS are indistinguishable between MA [Master Athletes] and OC [Older Controls]. Importantly, the OC retain a capacity for RE-induced stimulation of skeletal muscle remodeling.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2019.01084