Muscle loss can start early.
These 6 exercises to prevent muscle loss are easy to do every day to prevent atrophy and stay strong.
After age 60, it can accelerate to 3 percent a year.
The loss may be mild, moderate, or severeor muscles can remain in the normal range.
Experts in This Article
Cameron Countryman is a fitness instructor and personal trainer.
Kristie Alicea, CPT is an NCSF certified personal trainer and the founder of ABC Fit Collective.
Cameron Countryman is a fitness instructor and personal trainer.
Roger Luo, MD, assistant professor of spine and musculoskeletal medicine at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
Sarah Bowmar, CPT is a personal trainer and prenatal and postpartum expert.
How does muscle loss occur?
How can you prevent muscle loss early on?
When we cause strain to our muscle fibers, they tear.
Daily functional movements help to build muscles that you use in your active daily life.
Easy daily exercises to prevent muscle loss
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They can also help keep your joints lubricated and healthy.
Dips
Dips are tricep focused movements.
Cameron Countryman is a fitness instructor and personal trainer.
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Squats
Squats help build muscle in our glutes, calves, and hamstrings.
Lunges
Lunges are a great lower body movement that focuses on our quads and glutes.
Good mornings
Good mornings are a stretch and resistance movement all in one.
This can be done alone or with a barbell.
Good mornings can build and lengthen our hamstrings which are one of the biggest muscles in our body.
Why is it important to prevent muscle loss?
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